Independent prawn harvesters are celebrating after Fisheries and Oceans Canada modified its proposed new guidelines for the commercial fishing sector. Harvesters can now continue to use whatever size ...

Ainslie Cruickshank is a freelance journalist based in Vancouver. She has written for the Toronto Star, The Narwhal, and Canada’s National Observer, among other publications. ‘This is a big part of ...

'Freeze at sea' tail prawn fishing now illegal Members of the seafood industry are upset with a new rule requiring boats to bring in live prawns, ending a 50 year practice.

SECHELT, B.C. — The captain of a commercial fishing vessel has been fined $250,000 by a provincial court judge and ordered to forfeit $80,000 worth of equipment after being caught setting prawn traps ...

A recreational prawn fisherman has been fined $18,000 after pleading guilty to three fisheries charges, including fishing at the entrance to Howe Sound in an area banned to bottom fishing to protect ...

A man found prawn trapping in a protected glass sponge reef area in Howe Sound has been fined $40,000. John Howard Troy Henderson pleaded guilty to placing or setting prawn traps in a closed time ...

The captain of a commercial fishing vessel has been fined $250,000 by a provincial court judge and ordered to forfeit $80,000 worth of equipment after being caught setting prawn traps in a glass ...

Crab fisherman Stewart McDonald is steaming mad that he may soon be prevented by the Port of Vancouver from dropping crab traps around Vancouver's Burrard Inlet, where he's fished for more than two ...

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