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Fishing and aquaculture platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

  • Invest an extra $250M in the repair and maintenance of small craft harbours

    "Invest an additional $250 million in the repair and maintenance of small craft harbours. These harbours are the backbone of the fishing industry, especially in Atlantic Canada, and are the homebase for many of Canada’s fisheries. Tackling much needed repairs and improvements will protect livelihoods, and help these small fisheries grow." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-21

  • Add another $30M to the AgriMarketing Program to help farmers, ranchers, and producers access new markets, including in the fish and seafood sectors

    "Increase support for farmers, ranchers, and producers to access new markets for their food products with an additional $30 million in the AgriMarketing Program;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14

    "Increase support for farmers, ranchers, and producers, including in the fish and seafood sectors, to access new markets for their food products with an additional $30 million in the AgriMarketing Program. This will build on recent successes, including the recent opening of new Agri-Food Offices abroad, which helps our farmers access new markets and diversify away from the United States." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-21

  • Increase funding by 20% for each fisheries fund, and create a new Arctic Fisheries Fund

    "Help our fisheries respond to tariffs and reduce the risk involved in expanding to new markets by creating a new Arctic Fisheries Fund, and revamping the Atlantic Fisheries Fund, the Quebec Fisheries Fund, and the British Columbia Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund, increasing funding by 20% for each. This new funding will help our fishermen and women face tariff risks including on developing new export markets, new product development and promoting Canadian seafood for dinner tables here at home. Funding will also drive innovation, sustainability, and productivity so that our industry is set up for long-term growth." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-21

Conservative

  • Double funding for the Small Craft Harbours programme
  • Grant Harbour Authorities better access to federal commercial financing
  • Prohibit foreign and corporate ownership of new BC commercial fishing access, grandfathering current cases pending ownership transparency

    "Implementing a Made-in-B.C. Owner/Operator Policy to prohibit foreign and corporate ownership of new BC commercial fishing access, grandfathering current cases pending ownership transparency." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Create a public registry of fishing quota and license holders
  • Ensure that fishing is allowed only in accordance with DFO regulations
  • Implement "marked selective salmon" fisheries for hatchery salmon to protect vulnerable species
  • Invest in fisheries science and Integrated Fisheries Management Plans
  • Balance ecosystems by managing pinniped predation
  • Maintain the willing buyer-willing seller model for quota transfers

Bloc

  • Élaborer un plan de diversification des marchés pour les pêches

    Le Bloc travaillera avec le fédéral, le Québec et les

    milieux à l’élaboration d’un plan de diversification des

    marchés pour les pêches, alors que 85 % des exportations

    des produits sont dirigées vers les États-Unis

  • Militer en faveur du rapatriement des pleins pouvoirs en matière de pêches

    Dans l’intervalle, le Bloc Québécois proposera de confier à une agence

    indépendante décentralisée la gestion des stocks, des

    permis et des quotas afin que toute décision sur les

    pêches soit basée sur la science, pas le favoritisme.

  • Pousser le fédéral à promouvoir et développer des marchés visant la réouverture ou l’élargissement de certaines pêches ou chasses durables, par exemple le sébaste ou le phoque
  • Instaurer un protocole rigoureux de partage de la collecte de données entre le ministère, les pêcheurs et les chercheurs du milieu des pêches

    Le Bloc Québécois souligne que ces propositions menant à une

    meilleure connaissance de la réalité sur le terrain

    devraient pouvoir mener à des permissions raisonnables

    pour la pêche personnelle de diverses espèces.

  • Instaurer un protocole rigoureux de partage de la collecte de données entre le ministère, les pêcheurs et les chercheurs du milieu des pêches
  • Travailler à l’amélioration des infrastructures de transport, incluant la réfection des quais et des ports pour petits bateaux
We don't have any NDP policies on Fishing and aquaculture.
We don't have any Green policies on Fishing and aquaculture.

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