Category: fishers

Fishers Crabby Over Japan’s Russian Imports, but Tokyo Says Canada Exports Negligible

Atlantic fishers are feeling the pinch as Japan brings in cheap Russian product rather than Canadian snow crabs, with federal ministers and provincial premiers saying they are raising the issue with Japanese officials. But Tokyo is pushing back on claims that its trade decisions are undermining G7 sanctions—or that they are having much of an…


Commercial Fishers and Wild Salmon Advocates Cheer Large Returns to BC Waters

The summer of 2022 is shaping up to be a bumper season for both pink and sockeye salmon in British Columbia rivers, with one veteran Indigenous fisherman reporting the biggest catches of sockeye in decades. Mitch Dudoward has worked in the salmon industry for more than 40 years, and says fishing on the Skeena River…