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“We’re very confident that
our measures are world class in nature and stand up extremely well to
those in the United States,” said Adam Burns, the Department of
Fisheries and Oceans’ director of resource management.
our measures are world class in nature and stand up extremely well to
those in the United States,” said Adam Burns, the Department of
Fisheries and Oceans’ director of resource management.
Burns
was responding to the latest salvo from Massachusetts senators
Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, who are threatening a ban of some
Atlantic Canadian seafood products.
The senators blame a
Canadian “roll back” of whale protection measures in 2019. Canada had 12
right whale deaths in its waters in 2017, then none in 2018.