Canada's lucrative snow crab fishery in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence has had its certification as an environmentally sustainable fishery suspended. Twelve of the critically endangered whales died in the Gulf St. Lawrence last year, with necropsies performed on six. One whale was entangled in at least two sets of commercial snow crab fishing gear from Crab Fishing Area 12, the council said. It does not affect the snow crab fishery on the Atlantic side of Nova Scotia. The independent certifier SAI Global is expected to release a separate review of the Scotian Shelf snow crab fishery within weeks.

Source: CBC News March 20, 2018 14:45 UTC