Canada Passes New Fisheries Act: A Historic Win for Canada’s Oceans | Oceana

Victory | June 18, 2019

Canada Passes New Fisheries Act: A Historic Win for Canada’s Oceans

Canada’s new Fisheries Act, passed into law on June 18, 2019, requires, for the first time in Canada’s history, science-based rebuilding of all depleted fish populations. The passage of this modernized law puts Canada on the path to restoring its oceans to abundance.