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Published 11/07/2009 by Yahoo! Canada

Canada launches probe into missing salmon stocks

MONTREAL (AFP) - Canada launched a judicial inquiry Friday into why millions of Pacific salmon failed to reach Canadian rivers some months ago, in a bid to salvage the stocks that could shake up domestic fishery policies.

Bruce Cohen, a justice on British Columbia's Supreme Court, was appointed commissioner...

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...may lead to "recommendations for improving the sustainability of the sockeye salmon fishery ... including, as required, any changes to the policies, practices and procedures of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans" said the prime minister's...

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"It is very big news because I do not know of any government anywhere in the world that appointed a judicial inquiry to look at its government's management of the fishery" Phil Eidsvik, spokesman...

Canada launches probe into missing salmon stocks [Yahoo! Canada - 11/07/2009]

"Most government's, including all of Canada's previous governments, did their best to cover-up and hide their mismanagement of the fishery" Eidsvik added

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