DFO considers licensing recreational fishery in Atlantic Canada, Quebec.

The article reports on the move of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) to consider a licensing program for the four recreational fisheries in Quebec and Atlantic Canadian provinces. DFO resource management acting director general Max Stanfield, relates that the Atlantic-Quebec licensing program would help the development of an overall better management of the recreational fisheries. He pertains that flexibility was also needed for each province due to differences in the numbers of fish.