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Press review

Gulf of Saint Lawrence snow crab fishery piloting smart buoy as part of FIP to protect right whales

Chris Chase, Seafoodsource April 1st, 2024

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SENA BOSTON 2024

The Responsible Seafood Summit features a carefully curated, forward-thinking program with around 50 speakers who identify emerging issues before they become challenges and develop a long-term strategy addressing those challenges.


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    New Canadian FIP aims to reduce impacts on North Atlantic

    What they say about us

     "This fishery improvement project supports Sustainable Fisheries Partnership’s Target 75 initiative, as it aims to improve the sustainability of snow crab fisheries by reducing the impact of the fishing gear on other marine wildlife. 

    SFP partners include major retailers and food service providers that have commitments to advancing the sustainability of seafood by working with suppliers who are proactively seeking solutions to environmental challenges in fisheries. SFP works with these supply chains to help facilitate and catalyze industry-led fishery improvement projects (FIPs) when those challenges are identified. 

    There are already many efforts being undertaken by fishers, fishery managers, and other stakeholders in Atlantic Canada to test different fishing gear, area closures, earlier openings and other measures to reduce interactions with critically endangered north Atlantic right whales. Over the past year, SFP has worked with proactive industry stakeholders in the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence region to adapt their specific pilot projects and efforts into a publicly recognized FIP. 

    For the snow crab fishery in the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence to be sustainable in the long term, practical solutions must be developed that work for both the fishers and the whales. Rope-less gear, combined with other measures, shows promise as a solution but must be piloted and adapted for the vessels, the conditions, and to develop management strategies to support its use. SFP applauds this FIP as an example of fishers working hard to make a real difference, embracing new approaches, and actively participating in the development of solutions. This FIP will serve as a model for other pot and trap fisheries that overlap with whale habitat. "

    SFP  Partner Update

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    Want to know about target 75?

    READ
    Vers une pêche d'automne du crabe des neiges _ _ infoweekend.ca (pdf)Téléchargement
    Ropeless traps not easy for crabbers testing them in whale-protection effort _ CBC News (pdf)Téléchargement
    Canada’s fish populations declining; government must urgently enforce new Fisheries Act and get serious about rebuilding fisheries _ Oceana Canada (pdf)Téléchargement
    Fishing Industry and Others Look to Gear Innovations to Reduce Whale Deaths _ The Pew Charitable Trusts (pdf)Téléchargement
    Projet de récupération des engins de pêche - Radio-Gaspésie (pdf)Téléchargement
    De nouveaux équipements de pêche en développement pour protéger les baleines noires _ Radio-Canada.ca (pdf)Téléchargement
    Snow crab industry gets $2M to find ways to reduce right whale entanglements _ CBC News (pdf)Téléchargement
    More than 63 tonnes of ‘ghost gear’ removed from Atlantic Ocean in 2020, Fisheries Department says - The Globe and Mail (pdf)Téléchargement

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    Annual Meeting 26.10.2020

     Session 3: Market Interests, Management and Policy 01: New Fishery Improvement Project (FIP) in Canada’s largest snow crab region, zone 12, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence  

    We will discuss our FIP at this session, Join us! 

    Supporting Industry Investment in Codifying Fishery Improvements

    MEDIA RELEASE

    GULF OF ST.LAWRENCE ALLIED FISHERIES

    SEAFOOD WATCH RATING AND OUR FIP

    September 2022

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    June 1st, 2021

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