Commercial fisheries
Fishing licences, exporting, quotas, openings and closures, funding opportunities.
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Pacific and Yukon commercial fisheries
Regulations, openings and closures, fishery management plans, maps, forms and stock status reports for BC and Yukon.
Atlantic and Arctic commercial fisheries
Openings and closures, maps, and stock status reports for fisheries in NB, NL, NS, NT, PEI and QC.
Commercial fishing licences
Fishing licences from the National Online Licensing System, licensing forms and regional contacts.
Exporting and importing fish
Catch Certification Audit Office, Fisheries Certificate System and European Union regulations.
Fisheries management
Commercial fishery requirements, enforcement, sustainable fisheries policies, industry restructuring.
International fishery management
International fishing agreements and organizations, overfishing, unregulated fishing, enforcement.
Commercial fishery requirements
Licensing, gear tags and tabs, logbooks and at-sea monitoring.
Consultations and reviews
Links to public consultations and reviews on issues related to commercial fisheries in Canada.
Canada's fisheries funds
Funds that help our seafood sector meet the growing demands of a worldwide market.
Reporting requirements for commercial fisheries
Forms for reports on daily hail, landing and offloading, lost fishing gear, retrieval of a report of lost fishing gear.
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