A frontline Nova Scotia fisheries officer says his job was threatened by unnamed senior staff before he testified at the ...

The 13-month-long investigation, dubbed Operation Hammertime, resulted in the arrest of four people in Southern Nova Scotia ...

OTTAWA, ON, Oct. 3, 2024 /CNW/ - Today, the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, the Honourable Diane Lebouthillier, met with the Nova Scotia Minister of Fisheries and ...

Nova Scotia's fisheries minister and other provincial politicians, along with members of the commercial fishing sector, have said enforcement levels are not where they need to be in the lucrative ...

The lobster fishery in Nova Scotia has come to a standstill, and some P.E.I. fishermen have been told to tie up their boats. In Nova Scotia, lobster pounds and plants are at near capacity. P.E.I.

The Potlotek First Nation and Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs Monday dropped their civil suit against the Canadian federal government over fishing provisions. The groups announced that they ...

Federal fisheries officers in Nova Scotia say they’re refusing some enforcement duties because of threats to their safety, as they await Ottawa’s response to their complaints. The union representing ...

Kent Smith is Nova Scotia's minister of fisheries and aquaculture. He just completed his first trip to China. (CBC - image credit) Premier Tim Houston says a change in the dynamic between federal ...

A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has upheld the provincial fisheries minister’s right to impose a licence moratorium for fish buyers and processors that has been in place since 2018. Nova Scotia's ...

HALIFAX - The federal Fisheries Department says it has arrested 26 people since March 6 for illegally fishing baby eels in southwestern Nova Scotia. The department says that figure includes an ...

Nova Scotia's fisheries and aquaculture minister says his federal counterpart's silence in response to calls for action against illegal fishing in the province's southwestern region sends a message to ...

The government of Canada and the province of Nova Scotia are investing more than CAD 44 million ($34.4 million approx.) in the fish and seafood sector through the Atlantic Fisheries Fund. The funding ...