November 2008 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 13.
Canadian Commercial Fishing News
All Areas in Southwest New Brunswick des-Monts area. The red tide was probably Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Noncompliance with fishing observer
Closed to Molluscan Shellfish broken up by the strong winds that blew National Research Council’s Institute for requirement
Harvesting over the north shore of the Gaspé Peninsula Marine Biosciences in Halifax. A man from Woodfords has been
September 26, 2008 in the week of August 18. During the bloom convicted under the Fisheries Actfor failure
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) period, an unusual number of fish, bird and Convictions Under The Fisheries Act to take an at-sea observer on a fishing trip.
advised the public that the harvesting of bi- marine mammal mortalities, including those September 3, 2008 In June 2006, Darryl Slaney, the
valve molluscs, including oysters, clams, of nine belugas, was recorded. The findings In July 2007, fishery officers from the designated operator of the fishing vessel
mussels, scallops and quahogs, for of analyses on the carcasses washed up on Marystown detachment of Fisheries and Roger Venture, was informed by fishery
recreational or commercial purposes is shore support the theory that the marine Oceans Canada conducted an inspection of officers of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
prohibited until further notice in all areas of food chain was poisoned by the algae the fishing vessel Fishin’ Addiction when it that he was required to take an at-sea
Southwest New Brunswick. The area responsible for the red tide. landed at St. Lawrence. The officers learned observer on his next fishing trip. Mr. Slaney
affected is all waters within 1.6 kilometres of Since the toxin can cause transitory that the skipper on board the vessel was failed to make the necessary arrangement
the shoreline, from Nova Scotia to the US neurological symptoms and, in extreme Stephane Jacquard of Torbay, NL who was and was charged.
border. Coordinates of the area are outlined cases, death, Fisheries and Oceans Canada fishing the enterprise of Carl Rose Butler of In July 2008, in provincial court at St.
below. closed all the shellfish harvesting areas in Lower Wedgeport, NS. John’s, Mr. Slaney was convicted and was
This is a precautionary closure by CFIA the St. Lawrence Estuary because of the risk Further investigation revealed that Mr. fined $1,500.
due to an expected heavy rainfall which to human health. Some harvesting areas on Jacquard had left his whelk pots unattended
could increase levels of Bacterial Shellfish the North Shore have since reopened based for more than 72 hours, in contravention of
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Poisoning. on the recommendation of the Canadian his licence conditions, and that Mr.
Coordinates of closure: The foreshore Food Inspection Agency. Jacquard was not listed
and waters within 1.6 km of Southwest New As a precaution, Health Canada and the as a designated
Brunswick from the Nova Scotia border Canadian Food Inspection Agency advise operator on Mr. Rose’s
along the coast of New Brunswick to the against eating the livers and viscera of fish fishing enterprise.
United States border and the foreshore and and molluscs caught in the area where the Both men were
waters within 1.6 km of the Islands of Grand red tide occurred. This recommendation is subsequently charged
Manan, The Wolves, Bliss, Hills, Frye, Deer valid for a few weeks, which is the time under the Fisheries
and Campobello. required by the organisms to cleanse Act.
themselves naturally of their toxins. The In June 2008, in
Toxic Algae Bloom in the St. Lawrence agencies also recommend not eating the provincial court at
Estuary: Experts’ Findings viscera of any waterfowl caught in the St. Grand Bank, Mr.
September 2008 Lawrence Estuary this fall. However, eating Jacquard was
Experts at Fisheries and Oceans Canada waterfowl flesh is not a cause of poisoning convicted of fishing
and other organizations who joined forces in humans and is therefore considered safe, without having a
to monitor the “red tide” observed in the St. as the toxins tend to accumulate in the designation in place
Lawrence Estuary in August 2008 have digestive system (liver and and Mr. Butler was
concluded that the unusually large toxic hepatopancreas) of contaminated convicted of allowing
algae bloom caused most of the fish, bird and organisms, not in the flesh. another person to use
marine mammal mortalities reported in the A significant collaborative effort was his fishing enterprise
same period. made during these events by the members of without a designation,
The red tide was caused by the Réseau québécois d’urgences pour les for which they were
Alexandrium tamarense, a microscopic alga mammifères marins, namely Fisheries and each fined $750. Both
that occurs naturally in the Estuary and the Oceans Canada, Parks Canada, the men were also
Gulf of St. Lawrence. Heavy rainfall at the University of Montreal’s Faculty of convicted of leaving
end of July likely caused the extensive Veterinary Medicine in St. Hyacinthe, the whelk pots unattended
bloom, which began at the mouth of the Group for Research and Education on for more than 72
Saguenay Fjord and then drifted with the Marine Mammals and the St. Lawrence consecutive hours and
current to the south shore of the St. National Institute of Ecotoxicology. They each was fined $1,000.
Lawrence Estuary up to the Sainte-Anne- were joined by Environment Canada, the
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