Canada, U.S. fail to reach agreement on quota for shared haddock stock in 2023

Canada, U.S. fail to reach agreement on quota for shared haddock stock in 2023

By Paul Withers

Source: msn

1/5/2023

Credit: Paul Withers/CBC

Canada and the United States have, for the first time, failed to agree on a shared quota for the transboundary haddock stock on the Georges Bank fishing grounds off southern Nova Scotia.

The two countries have jointly managed the haddock fishery — and two other straddling stocks — since 2000, but were unable to reach a consensus for the 2023 haddock quota.

"While Canada and the U.S. tried to negotiate a shared haddock total allowable catch … our countries will be setting our own total allowable catch independently of the other," wrote Kathy Cooper-MacDonald, senior advisor, Fisheries Management in Maritimes Region on Dec. 28.