Who owns a crab on the seabed?

France promised a snow crab licence on the Grand Banks, and Canada says the crab is Canadian. The answer depends on a rule most maps leave out: the ocean has a floor as well as a surface.
Fishmongers • HFX • NS
Fishmongers • HFX • NS

France promised a snow crab licence on the Grand Banks, and Canada says the crab is Canadian. The answer depends on a rule most maps leave out: the ocean has a floor as well as a surface.

A report published last week says Canada now imports more than $765 million of Atlantic salmon a year, double what it did in 2016. The number is real. The story underneath it is not the one the headline suggests.

On June 24, 2026, Nova Scotia launched a three-year seafood strategy built around diversification and aquaculture. Here's what it includes, what it could mean for coastal communities and your plate, and why the export risk it targets isn't ours.

Every summer the capelin roll brings millions of small silver fish onto Newfoundland beaches to spawn. As of late June 2026 it is happening. Here is what it is and where to see it.

The northern cod quota jumped to 59,000 tonnes for 2026-27. We are glad cod is back, and we are still not selling it. Here is why, told straight.