Sentences with phrase «federal fisheries»

In Ontario, the provincial Public Lands Act and federal Fisheries Act will apply if the construction of a dock impacts both the shoreline waters and fish habitat.

Both of these Fisheries Act provisions trenched on Provincial powers over property and civil rights in the Province, but one was found to have the primary purpose of protecting fisheries with only an incidental effect on Provincial jurisdiction, while the other was found to be insufficiently connected to the Federal fisheries power to be a valid exercise of the Federal power.

Two Supreme Court of Canada decisions, R. v. Fowler, [1980] 2 S.C.R. 213 (Fowler) and Northwest Falling Contractors Ltd. v. R., [1980] 2 S.C.R. 292 (Northwest Falling), illustrate where this line is drawn in the case of the Federal fisheries power.

The Barry's Ltd. decision was cited with approval by the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Ward v. Canada (Attorney General), [2002] 1 SCR 569: «labour relations in the fisheries were held to be matters essentially falling within the provincial power to regulate business in the province and outside the federal fisheries power.»

The current Liberal Federal Government is moving full - swing in its promised amendments to the legislation governing the federal environmental assessment process and the environmental protection provisions related to the Federal Fisheries power.

As the Endangered Species Act nears its 40th birthday at the end of December, conservation biologists are coming to terms with a danger not foreseen in the early 1970s: global climate change Federal fisheries scientists have published a special section in this month's issue of Conservation Biology that outlines some considerations for coming decades.

Lee Crockett, director of Federal Fisheries Policy at the Pew Environment Group, today issued the following statement in response to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) closing its comment period on its annual catch limit proposed rule.

Lee Crockett, director of Federal Fisheries Policy at the Pew Environment Group, today issued the following statement in response to the National Marine Fisheries Service finalizing its annual catch limit rule: Read More

Lee Crockett, director of Federal Fisheries Policy at the Pew Environment Group, today issued the following statement in response to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) meeting on proposed rules governing annual catch limits.

Lee Crockett's «Overfishing 101» blog provided an authoritative primer on federal fisheries policy.

Lee Crockett, director of federal fisheries policy for the Pew Environment Group, and Holly Binns, manager of Pew's Campaign to End Overfishing in the Southeast, issued this joint statement today on Senator Bill Nelson's (D - Fla.)

Statement of Lee Crockett Director Federal Fisheries Policy Pew Environment Group on the Bush Administration Finalizing the National Marine Fisheries Services Annual Catch Limit Rule

Lee Crockett, director of federal fisheries policy for Pew Charitable Trusts gives us a crash course on overfishing - taking fish from their habitat faster than they can reproduce - which is a critical issue among conservationists because fish provide a vital link in the chain of events that sustain our oceans, lakes and waterways.

This is just a quick note of farewell to the Caribbean monk seal, not seen since 1952 and given its formal designation as extinct by federal fisheries officials last Friday.

Commerce Department officials may have knowingly violated federal fisheries law in June when they extended the Gulf of Mexico's red snapper season, memos show.

Internal memos show that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and a top adviser may have knowingly violated federal fisheries law in June when they extended the Gulf red snapper season, hoping the move would pressure Congress to act.

Although the federal government has shown no inclination to become involved in any effort to save ELA, Broten says that she has had «very productive» talks with Federal Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield.

In Colorado, for instance, state and federal fisheries experts were recently spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year over five years to restore populations of a threatened subspecies of trout, the greenback cutthroat.

Last year, federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea assured reporters her department was doing everything it could to help fisheries get certified, saying, «the cost of not doing it would be, well, we can't even talk about that.»

legislation to weaken a key federal fishery law, the Magnuson - Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, and delay plans to end overfishing and rebuild the...

legislation to weaken a key federal fishery law, the Magnuson - Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, and delay plans to end overfishing and rebuild the... Read More

Not exact matches

Provincial Liberal fisheries critic Jim Bennett said offering to give up those protections in exchange for $ 280 million in federal cash is a reckless giveaway.

Documents tabled in the legislature include an email from Bill Hawkins, then the chief of staff to federal International Trade Minister Ed Fast, dated a week before Dunderdale announced the fishery fund last year.

The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, for example, presided over the collapse of Atlantic cod stocks in the 1980s.

She also said her department would seek input from the federal departments of environment and fisheries, adding that meetings have already occurred with federal officials.

Strobel is in talks with the federal government to open a processing plant on Department of Fisheries and Oceans land, and has already tapped back into the SheEO network for more investments.

Feb. 14, 2014: Federal Court finds federal environment and fisheries ministers broke the law by failing to enforce Species at Risk Act in a lawsuit brought in relation to pipelineFederal Court finds federal environment and fisheries ministers broke the law by failing to enforce Species at Risk Act in a lawsuit brought in relation to pipelinefederal environment and fisheries ministers broke the law by failing to enforce Species at Risk Act in a lawsuit brought in relation to pipeline route.

Or, as pointed out by the federal environment minister McKenna in a letter Thursday to B.C. environment Minister George Heyman, that Canada already has a mountain of regulation to ensure a world - leading regime to transport oil and products, including: the Railway Safety Act, the Pipeline Safety Act, the National Energy Board Act, the Canada Shipping Act, 2001, the Marine Liability Act, the Fisheries Act, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, and that Ottawa has pledged to spend an additional $ 1.5 billion to protect its coasts and marine environment.

But most of the vitriol was reserved for the Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), the federal body entrusted with protecting fish and fish hFederal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), the federal body entrusted with protecting fish and fish hfederal body entrusted with protecting fish and fish habitat.

With the Environmental Defense Fund, she has lobbied federal lawmakers on fishery conservation.

In an address to the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank in London, she called for a federal UK founded on a «new Act of Union» that included repatriating to Scotland the EU's powers in areas like fisheries, farming and employment rights.

Several dozen fishermen, women and lawmakers are urging Cuomo to make good on a promise to sue the federal government over New York's disproportionately low share of the fluke fishery.

That means the federal government has totally given up on the restoration of the Hudson River fishery.»

The findings resulted from a collaboration of federal, state and tribal scientists in the Pacific Northwest, including Oregon State University and NOAA Fisheries.

The group hosts planning workshops and provides technical assistance to local utilities, city councils, tribal fisheries commissions, and a menu of relevant state and the federal departments.

To start with, the conservancy worked with fishing fleets to map out 1.5 million hectares of no - trawl zones, which the Pacific Fishery Management Council, the federal agency that oversees all fisheries along the US's west coast, adopted.

The CEL is planning a legal challenge to the state government for breaking its own fisheries regulations and for contravening the federal government's forest conservation act, which protects the sanctuary.

In 2008 a federal recovery plan stated that the white abalone «was driven to such low levels during the height of the commercial fishery that adults do not occur in high enough densities to successfully reproduce, contributing to repeated recruitment failure and an effective population size near zero.»

Federal researchers estimate that even if Asian carp are kept out of the Great Lakes, they could affect freshwater fisheries in as many as 31 states representing some 40 percent of the continental U.S.

If the proposed critical habitat designation is approved, other federal agencies will be required to consult with NOAA Fisheries on actions such as oil exploration and drilling that could destroy or adversely affect the area.

In hopes of getting around these barriers, members from many of these groups — including federal and state fisheries and wildlife agencies, water supply managers, irrigation districts, and environmental groups — came together in 2006 and began hammering out the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP).

During her PhD studies, and supported by bilateral collaborative projects, she had the opportunity to develop work abroad, namely at the Leibniz - Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (Germany) and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Switzerland).

The EPA has reciprocity agreements with a plethora of organizations across the country, ranging from other government agencies at the federal and state level (such as the U.S. Geological Survey and the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries) to universities and private - sector businesses (such as the University of Washington and the Oregon Coast Aquarium).

Media release: Conservation groups are putting the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister of Fisheries and Oceans on notice as the groups race to secure protection for endangered Southern Resident killer whales...

The Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw, «Namgis and Mamalilkala First Nations have never given their consent to open - pen Atlantic salmon feedlots operating in their territories and are now demanding that both the provincial and federal governments recognize their right to traditional fishery and have the fish farms removed.

The agency enforces Federal wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign and Native American Tribal governments with their conservation efforts.

Funding for the upgrades and new facilities came from a variety of sources, including the federal and provincial governments, Pacific Salmon Foundation, BHP - Billiton, Rotary Club of Port Hardy, Island Coastal Economic Trust, West Coast Community Adjustment Program and Mount Waddington Community Futures, Vancouver Foundation, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Norkan Construction.

The federal government has agreed to pay Gloucester fishermen not to fish in a continuing effort to recover the one - fabulous George's Bank fishery by keeping it closed to fishing.

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In a letter to Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield and Environment Minister Peter Kent, Schindler says the federal Experimental Lakes Area in northwestern Ontario would be ideal for studying specific chemical impacts on fish in the wild.