Traduction de «Fonds de rétablissement des stocks aquacoles » (Français → Anglais) :

Aquaculture Stock Replacement Fund

rebuilding fund

Southern Boundary Restoration and Enhancement Fund [ Southern Fund ]

Alternatively, the FRCC report, Towards Recovered and Sustainable Groundfish Fisheries in Atlantic Canada, validated the DFO science advisory report. It recommended testing the hypothesis that predation by grey seals is a major factor preventing recovery of groundfish stocks in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence.

In March of 2011, as a follow-up to the workshop, the Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat advised that the weight of evidence suggested that grey seal predation in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence was an important factor inhibiting the recovery of Atlantic cod and of other groundfish stocks, notably white hake and winter skate, and that the number of grey seals feeding on cod would need to be reduced by 73,000 over five years to allow stocks to recover.

That starting with the 2013 season and for a period of four years, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans implement and manage a grey seal targeted removal program in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence to reduce the level of the herd by 70,000 animals; and, that this program, based on the Fisheries Resource Conservation Council’s report entitled “Towards Recovered and Sustainable Groundfish Fisheries in Eastern Canada”, work in conjunction with continuing research and evaluation which should lead to a long term sustainable management plan of grey seals in Atlantic Canada and Quebec; That research protocols to be performed during the removal of grey seals be established to test the hypot ...[+++]hesis that predation is the major factor preventing recovery of groundfish stocks in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, as well as to better understand and monitor the effects of the target removal; and, That Department of Fisheries and Oceans officials appear before the Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans at the earliest opportunity after the first harvesting season to report on the progress made with the grey seal targeted removal program.

In applying the precautionary approach to groundfish management, action must be taken immediately in order to improve opportunities for the conservation and recovery of cod and other groundfish stocks without awaiting for absolute scientific proof of the effects of seal predation.