Media Advisory: Minister LeBlanc Announces Commitment to Act on Cohen Commission Recommendations

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August 08, 2016 15:00 ET

Media Advisory: Minister LeBlanc Announces Commitment to Act on Cohen Commission Recommendations



VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Aug. 8, 2016) - The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, will announce the Government of Canada's commitment to act on the recommendations from the 2012 Cohen Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River.

Minister LeBlanc will provide important information regarding DFO's past and future work in implementing the Cohen recommendations.

Media are invited to attend.

Date: Tuesday August 9, 2016
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Location: DFO West Vancouver Laboratory

Centre for Aquarium and Environmental Research (CAER)

4160 Marine Drive, West Vancouver, BC
Directions: https://www.google.ca/maps/place/CAER

Internet: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca

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Contact Information

Dan Bate, DFO Communications
604-775-8809
Cell: 604-209-6225
rhq.media@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

Patricia Bell
Press Secretary
Office of the Minister
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
613-992-3474
Patricia.bell@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
 
thx for posting the link to all 75 Cohen reommendations @Derby . Will be interesting to follow along and see which ones are met. cheers
 
That is good news. Hopefully they will be implementing more than just a select few of the commission's recommendations. At least a little bit of encouraging news.
 
Retaining the DFO's mandate to promote fish farms is a major omission of the Cohen Commission's recommendations. That is just more evidence that business calls the tune when it comes to fishing with our federal representatives. Doesn't really appear that much has changed in Ottawa.
 
News
Critic Still Wary on Liberals’ Commitment to Salmon
Praise for Cohen Commission action, but doubts about commitment to restoring protection lost in Harper years.
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By Jeremy J. Nuttall Today | TheTyee.ca
http://thetyee.ca/News/2016/08/10/L..._content=081016-1&utm_campaign=editorial-0816
 
I thinks its bs myself also. They have had months to move on campaign promise to reinstate habitat protection. Right now its wide open for province or industry to do what they want. So far this new government is pretty much same as harper when it comes to fish management. Time will tell.
 
THEY STILL NEED TO PUT FISHERIES ACT BACK TO WAS REPEALING BILL 38. It was an election promise. If that isn't done then anything on habitat protection they said they did doesn't mean anything.
 
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