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For over 100 years, Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba have been home to Manitoba's commercial fishery. The majority of the fishery's production is sold out of the country and represents over $30 million annually for Manitoba's economy -- a significant contribution. About two-thirds of this amount is generated by the commercial fishery on Lake Winnipeg. Over 1,000 licensed fishers are employed on this lake, harvesting a variety of species including pickerel, goldeye, sauger and whitefish. Several smaller lakes in southern and northern Manitoba are also fished commercially, including Southern Indian Lake.
Rising temperatures could benefit warm-water species such as walleye, yellow perch and white bass by creating conditions that promote the growth of offspring better able to survive throug...
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... sued by state organ regulating production and marketing of eggs for damages arising from ill... and continued prosecution of the fishery by the owners and operators of the various types o...
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We disagree with the government's plans to improve the health of Lake Winnipeg by making minor reductions in inputs of both phosphorus and nitrogen, rather than making much larger reductions in phosphorus alone," the scientists said.
"Lake Winnipeg is no longer a natural lake," the letter said. "Lake Winnipeg is now a hydroelectric reservoir with a commercial fishery surrounded by a large watershed that has been intensively developed for agriculture, livestock production, mining, forestry and urban centres... The notion of managing nutrients with the goal of restoring Lake Winnipeg to a 'natural' state is imprudent.
"We need a sign that the NDP government is taking the health and protecting of Lake Winnipeg seriously," said Tory MP Heather Stefanson. "It's time for the NDP to do what'...
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...Cooperation can pay in an international fishery because it can dramatically expand the long-term s... over-fishing and provide for optimum production; and . b) provide for each Party to receive benefi...
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... right to process and market commercial fishery production sold interprovincially or on an export ...
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...% (in value) of catches and aquaculture production. Imports for the same period were worth $2.1 billi...Fishery harvest and processing industries represent a mult...
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... Canada's first community supported fishery - Off the Hook. . Originally developed in coastal ...I'd open city-owned land for food production." . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] . A growing food-securi...
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... set out in subsection 22(1) of the Fishery (General) Regulations, conditions in an aquacultur... impacts of the operations, production volumes, species to be produced, animal welfare an...
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... the Fisheries Act and section 22(1) the Fishery (General) Regulations are listed in the Protection...Because the Court may order production of a record under Rule 317 only if there is a de...
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... under 500 years later, this abundant cod fishery had been reduced to one percent of its highest his... of fish -- managing the fish (re)production in "baskets" instead of seeking them in an unpredi...