Northern Sask. fishers triple harvest of once undervalued fish now prized for caviar

Northern Sask. fishers triple harvest of once undervalued fish now prized for caviar

Source: CBC News

12/19/2022

Credit: Ken Misponas

A year after getting unprecedented returns from harvesting tullibee under a new program, commercial fishers in Pinehouse Lake, Sask., tripled their harvest in October.

In just over two weeks of fishing, 14 commercial fishers from the nearby predominantly Métis village of Pinehouse, which is about 375 kilometres north of Saskatoon, harvested more than148,000 kilograms of tullibee, according to the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corp. (FFMC).

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