For blackback, they limited us to going to what we call Offer Gooseberry Island. |
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Why use five-and-a-half-inch gear if you can't sell the blackback that's in it? |
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I didn't want to wade in on the blackback fishery, but I almost feel compelled to make a comment on it. |
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It was superb: a whole blackback flounder in lobster butter with caviar, served alongside a separate casserole of delectable, creamy polenta. |
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I firmly believe that had we not had a protest, the fishermen would not have gottena blackback catch. |
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The government opened a blackback season obviously so they could have a sentinel fishery on cod this year. |
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The actual cod grounds are not handy to where you put your blackback nets, and we're still finding cod there. |
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Certainly they have the blackback fishery, which turned out to be a cod fishery, and whether it was designed that way we can argue. |
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So really, you put in blackback nets, but direct them for cod, in 15 fathoms of water. |
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For example, on the blackback fishery this year, DFO decided to change the mesh size to five and a half inches from six and a half inches. |
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What I gathered was that a fair bit of cod was caught in the blackback fishery. |
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By-catch remains an issue in inshore gillnet fisheries for lumpfish and blackback flounder off eastern Newfoundland. |
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It's like being limited with the blackback fishery of the year. |
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I'll come to what I term a 2005 blackback fiasco. |
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They gave it too late, when all the blackback were gone. |
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We certainly don't want to find out how much blackback is there. |
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You don't catch blackback in five-and-a-half-inch gear. |
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If this was the case, then the blackback fishery should have been opened July 1 instead of mid-August to allow fishermen to fish proper depths for cod on proper fishing grounds. |
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The second-ranking silverback is also a possible sire in the sixth case, although three other lower-ranking blackback males were also not excluded. |
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