First Striped Bass Commercial Fishery In 20 Years Goes Ahead On Miramichi
September 7, 2018 | 1 min to read
Eel Ground First Nation has struck the first striped bass commercial fishery deal in the Miramichi River since 1996.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans put a stop to commercial fishery on the river after the bass population declined to only 5,000.
But in the past 10 years, the bass population has boomed, tripling from 2016 to 2017 to reach almost a million.
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