Elog - Sessions
2025 AMAC BAIT UPDATE
SENT ON BEHALF OF TODD WILLIAMS, CHAIR, ATLANTIC MACKEREL ADVISORY COMMITTEE (AMAC)
Dear Members,
I would like to inform you that based on preliminary data, bait landings for Atlantic mackerel are 57 tonnes. This represents over 25% of the first 220 tonne quota for the personal-use bait fishery. You will receive the next update once 50% of the quota is reached followed by weekly updates.
Note, for the 2025 season, the Minister has set a Total Allowable Catch (TAC) of 500 tonnes (t), which includes 440 t for the personal-use bait fishery, and 20 t each for the bluefin tuna bait exemption, scientific sampling, and bycatch. The first 220 tonnes are currently available in line with the opening of the bait fishery on May 15, 2025. The second 220 t release will also be conveyed through a Notice to Fish Harvesters with an expected release date in September, to provide fairness in access for harvesters across all regions within Atlantic Canada and Quebec.
Thank you
SCALLOP SFA 21 - Notice to Fish Harvesters - 2025 for Sub-area 21B
Notice Announcing the 2025-2026 TAC for 4RST Atlantic halibut
The MFU needs your support, by signing this petition, to urge with one common voice that DFO act now to reduce and manage the population of striped bass in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) refuses to consider the MFU’s recommendations regarding the striped bass population of the southern gulf of St. Lawrence.
The Maritime Fishermen’s Union (MFU) recommendations:
- To reinstate the retention of striped bass as by-catch in the gaspereau, eel and smelt fisheries.
- To allow the retention of striped bass as by-catch in lobster and Atlantic halibut fisheries.
- To reinstate an October 15th opening for fall open water smelt box net fishery.
- To give a commercial quota to the members of the MFU.
- Re-evaluate the reference points taking into account the carrying capacity of the Miramichi River ecosystem.
- To extend the science research to other rivers, the marine environment and to include multi-species interactions.
The MFU needs your support, by signing this petition, to urge with one common voice that DFO act now to reduce and manage the population of striped bass in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence.
SHARE WITH EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO GIVE THEIR SUPPORT!
