Bluefin Tuna Won’t Be Included Under Species At Risk Criteria

For once Bluefin tuna fishermen in Atlantic Canada received good news from the government — but you wouldn’t think so by listening to the public airways and reading reports from the Ottawa media. On August 29, the federal government decided not to list Bluefin tuna under the Species at Risk Act, thus enabling this small but important segment of the Atlantic commercial fishery to continue. A 30-day period was allotted for response to the decision and no doubt the government will be ...