Clam concern continues for Grand Bank council as Indigenous groups come forward – The Southern Gazette
Nov. 3, 2017
GRAND BANK, NL – Grand Bank council continues to express disappointment at the recent decision by federal Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc to add a fourth licence for Arctic surf clams in next year’s fishery.
Nova Scotia-based Clearwater Seafoods currently holds the other three licences and processes the clams at its facility in Grand Bank.
Stipulations on the new licence require the holder to be an Indigenous entry based in Atlantic Canada or Quebec.
LeBlanc has said 25 per cent of the existing 38,000-tonne quota will be re-allocated from Clearwater to the new entrant.
