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Magdalen Islands  

Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Quebec Region announces that the Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) will be mandatory for the directed Atlantic halibut fishery for the Magdalen Island Atlantic halibut fixed gear fleet as of the 2025-2026 fishing season.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) - Québec Region wishes to inform shrimp harvesters in the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence of the distribution of the Northern shrimp Total Allowable Catches (TACs) for Fishing Areas 8, 9, 10 and 12 among the various groups for the upcoming fishing season.

In line with the sharing stabilized in 2009, the TACs will be distributed as follows:

Québec – January 23 2024

Since 2021, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has been analyzing, in collaboration with industry, the relevance of implementing a residency criteria for one or more marine sectors or specific fleets.

LOBSTER – AREA 22 – MAGDALEN ISLANDS LOBSTER FLEET 

Magdalen Islands – January 31, 2024

Fisheries and Oceans Canada – Quebec Region announces the following modification to the management measures on the shape and size of traps, effective from the 2024 fishing season:

• The maximum dimensions will be 82 cm in length, 61 cm in width and 50 cm in height, regardless of the shape of the trap used.

Québec/Gaspe- Lower North Shore area:  January 24, 2024

Contrary to the Notice to Fish Harvesters issued on July 12, 2023, for the Gaspé fixed gear fleet less than 13.71 m (Lobster Group), the Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) will be mandatory for the directed Atlantic halibut fishery as of the 2025-26 fishing season, not the 2024-25 fishing season.