Commercial fisheries

Fishing licences, exporting, quotas, openings and closures, funding opportunities.

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Regulations, openings and closures, fishery management plans, maps, forms and stock status reports for BC and Yukon.

Openings and closures, maps, and stock status reports for fisheries in NB, NL, NS, NT, PEI and QC.

Fishing licences from the National Online Licensing System, licensing forms and regional contacts.

Catch Certification Audit Office, Fisheries Certificate System and European Union regulations.

Commercial fishery requirements, enforcement, sustainable fisheries policies, industry restructuring.

International fishing agreements and organizations, overfishing, unregulated fishing, enforcement.

Licensing, gear tags and tabs, logbooks and at-sea monitoring.

Links to public consultations and reviews on issues related to commercial fisheries in Canada.

Funds that help our seafood sector meet the growing demands of a worldwide market.

Forms for reports on daily hail, landing and offloading, lost fishing gear, retrieval of a report of lost fishing gear.