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that healthy ecosystems are also good for fishing prospects, and so the interests are aligned, not in conflict. Opponents contend there is already evidence of conflict causing changes in policy, that the expert opinion in the Cohen
Commission highlighted the issue before, and that the government seemed to grant many exemptions to the normal critical level that would normally trigger dramatic restrictions on fishing.
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Concerns have been raised and it remains an active debate as to whether there is a conflict of interest to have the minister responsible for the well-being of the fisheries industry to be the same minister responsible for preservation of coastal environment and fish habitat. The government contends
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The initial Act defined
Fishery Officers, who each had Justice of the Peace powers, and defined forbidden practices in the cod, whale, seal, salmon, lake and river trout, whitefish and bass and pickerel fisheries. This included closed seasons when fish could not be taken and prohibitions in various
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Britain's Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which ruled that these were more the responsibility of provincial governments. Licensing of fishing was taken over by the provinces, except for sea
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during its term. Its 2012 amendments reduced protections to only apply to "a commercial, recreational or aboriginal fishery." Previously, the Act prohibited the killing of fish by other than fishing and prohibited any undertakings that caused harmful disruption or destruction of fish habitat. One
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and banned use of swing nets in salmon fishing, protected salmon spawning zones, regulated lobster licenses, gave officials the authority to impound illegally caught fish, banning dams in fishing rivers except as approved by government or for eel weirs, banning using fish as fertilizer, banning
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Indigenous framework for fishing, creating penalties, empowering officers, and giving the Minister authority to regulate.
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balancing those costs with economic benefits. In general, the act's revisions shifted focus away from punishing companies for degradation of fish habitat to punishment only in the cases of serious harms to fish themselves, a standard less likely to happen and more difficult to prove
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Commons, and addressed, shark finning, definitions of habitat, and language regarding Indigenous Rights. There was not a recorded vote on Third Reading, as the Act had widespread support of the Commons.
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certain types of materials from being disposed into waterways, creating a broad regulatory authority for the minister, and creating offences and penalties. The Act notably did separate out
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oversee fisheries, enabled the Minister to create a licensing system for fishermen, broadly prohibited whaling with the exception of instances approved by the minister, statutorily banned
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areas critical to fish reproduction. It also prohibited the dumping into various fish habitats of "prejudicial or deleterious substances" with a fine of not more than
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