Canada: Fish fight over West Coast licences and quota resurfaces at federal committee
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게시됨 2023년 5월 29일
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A parliamentary committee investigating whether corporations and foreign owners have a stranglehold on Canadian fisheries is experiencing a serious case of deja vu.
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Witnesses speaking about the dire straits faced by commercial fish harvesters and coastal communities on the West Coast are raising the same issues first presented to the Standing Committee of Fisheries and Oceans (FOPO) starting in 2018. Independent operators, First Nations and young fishers are being squeezed out by skyrocketing prices for commercial fishing licences and quota — a set share of the allowable catch — witnesses told the committee at ongoing meetings starting May 8. The result is a concentration of industry control and profit in the hands of corporations, processors, foreign and domestic investors, or retired harvesters, FOPO heard. On the West Coast, the complete absence of ownership restrictions for licences and quota means the federal government is managing fisheries solely to maximize profits over social benefits, said Villy Christensen, a professor at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia. Citing the lucrative halibut ...