NL-Outsidethebox [confederation]

She actually called the article Hangashores but I felt a more appropriate name would have been guilty until proven innocent contrary to how the rest of Canada is being treated.

BYCATCH is just a scam. A way for Ottawa to hand out Quotas without actually being seen as giving away our god given right to earn a living from the sea because of the laws of adjacency. Mean while Upalongs shit on us for what Canada has done or not done to the Continental shelf.
Indiscriminant and destructive fishing practices are the bane of a recovery in the fishery IMHO. That and contiinuing to let Canada mismanage it.

Because the foreign nations (Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, France, Iceland, Japan, Korea, Norway, Russia, Ukraine, USA, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Portugal, Spain, Germany) claim they have historical rights to our fish, Ottawa allows them to manage our main fisheries around this province.

For example, if DFO allows fishermen from this province to catch cod in any of the zones 2J3KL, which covers the entire North and East coast from midway up the Labrador coast along the coast of Newfoundland to Cape St. Mary’s, then the foreigners must also get a quota – that’s the agreement this nation has with the foreign nations – that’s the law.

That’s right, if there is a cod quota for anywhere along our North or East Coast, including the Avalon Peninsula, those foreign nations must also be given a cod quota in that same fishing zone which extends out to include the nose of the Grand Banks. Canada can restrict the foreigners to the Nose but they cannot prevent the foreign quotas in our cod stock. It’s all in Article 4 of the NAFO agreement that Ottawa negotiates every year.

Turbot is another one of the ten main species of fish the foreigners manage around our coast – right up to the high water mark.

For this year Canada has a quota of 2056 tonnes of turbot in fishing zones 3LMNO. 3L covers practically our entire east coast including Bonavista Bay, Trinity Bay, Conception Bay, right around to Cape St. Mary’s.

Well the Total Allowable Catch for this year is 13,709 tonnes. Canada has only 2,056 of that with the countries of the EU getting four times our quota. But just look at the allowable by-catch of cod given to the foreigners – its shocking.

Article 9 of the NAFO Conservation and enforcement measures agreement covers the by-catch. It says that each foreign country can catch a by-catch of 10% cod in 3L if Canada has not banned the catching of cod in that zone (see article 4). If there is a ban on the catching of cod in 3L, then the foreign nations can catch a by-catch of 5% cod.