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Fisheries Jurisdiction And The Atlantic Salmon: Fact And Law From A Canadian Point Of View, H. Scott Fairley
Fisheries Jurisdiction And The Atlantic Salmon: Fact And Law From A Canadian Point Of View, H. Scott Fairley
Dalhousie Law Journal
Fisheries conservation has become an important if also recent concern of maritime nations with significant economic sectors heavily dependent on ocean harvests. Canada is one of these and the Atlantic salmon is certainly conspicuous among a growing number of endangered fisheries. Grossly depleted salmon runs in the Maritime Provinces once supported a burgeoning estuarial and riparine commercial fishery as well as an immensely profitable tourist industry based on sport fishing. In the past the salmon have suffered from domestic problems, chiefly pollution, for which internal remedies in the form of river clean-ups, pollution abatement and artificial inducements such as fish …
The Offshore Mineral Resources Agreement In The Maritime Provinces, Rowland J. Harrison
The Offshore Mineral Resources Agreement In The Maritime Provinces, Rowland J. Harrison
Dalhousie Law Journal
On February 1, 1977, the Prime Minister of Canada and the Premiers of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island signed a "Memorandum of Understanding in Respect of the Administration and Management of Mineral Resources Offshore of the Maritime Provinces".' The Understanding removes a major impediment to potential development of any offshore petroleum resources of the Maritimes, after nearly ten years of federalprovincial negotiations, and more generally represents a quite unique development in Canadian constitutional relations. At the time of its execution, it was described variously as "a mile-stone in federal-regional relations ' 2 and "federalism at its best". …