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Can an Eco-Friendly Cod Trap Revive a 500-Year-Old Fishing Community?

By: Allison Guy

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2025 Audit Shows Fisheries are Still at Risk as Rebuild Law Lags 

A new national audit shows Canada is falling behind on implementing its own fisheries rebuilding law — leaving most marine fish stocks without the protections needed to recover. One-third depleted, one-third uncertain — and most still lack legal safeguards for rebuilding.  

Despite progress this year, including 12 new rebuilding plans and greater transparency around climate considerations, the overall picture remains troubling: key decisions continue to ignore scientific advice, climate-ready management is absent for most stocks, and gaps in forage fish science and management puts ecosystem heath at risk. 

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Oceana Canada operates in many regions across Canada. From coast to coast to coast, we acknowledge the ancestral and unceded territory of all the Inuit, Métis, and First Nations communities that call this land home, and we strive for our work to be done in a spirit of collaboration and reconciliation.

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