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Notice to Fish Harvesters – Licence Extensions for 2025 – nf.24.340
December 27, 2024

FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA

NOTICE TO FISH HARVESTERS

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Dec. 27, 2024

Licence Extensions for 2025

DFO advises fish harvesters that fishing licences for 2025 will not be available until after the first few weeks of January 2025. Those fish harvesters who wish to fish during the first weeks of January 2025 must first have their 2024 fishing licences amended by a DFO Fishery Officer or a Licensing Officer to extend their licence to January 26, 2025.

Fish harvesters are advised that before the start of any fishing trip in 2025, they are to place a request in NOLS (https://fishing-peche.dfo-mpo.gc.ca), with a copy of their 2024 Licence Document attached for a Licensing Officer to amend the licence end date. This will allow harvesters to continue fishing while they are awaiting their 2025 licence through the National Online Licensing System (NOLS).

“Notices to Fish Harvesters” for all commercial fisheries are now available online under the Fishery Notices link on the DFO NL Region webpage at https://www.nfl.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/en

If you would like to have all “Notices to Fish Harvesters” for commercial fisheries sent directly to you by email please contact: miranda.pryor@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

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For information, contact:
Nellie Taylor
Regional Manager, Licensing Operations
Resource Management & Indigenous Fisheries
NL Region, Fisheries & Oceans Canada
PO Box 5667 St. John’s, NL A1C 5X1 email:nellie.taylor@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

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Dr. Erin Carruthers

Dr. Erin Carruthers is the Science Director and Senior Fisheries Scientist with the Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union (FFAW-Unifor), which is the labour union that represents the owner-operator fleet in Newfoundland and Labrador. The FFAW is committed to research and management that supports healthy oceans, fisheries, and coastal communities. Dr. Carruthers received her Ph. D. in Biology from Memorial University in 2011 followed by a postdoctoral fellowship with the Centre for Fisheries Ecosystems Research. Before coming to Newfoundland, Erin worked as a Research Biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada at the St. Andrews Biological Station. Her current research program is co-constructed with fish harvesters and includes research on coastal fishing communities, collaborative longline and trap surveys, and best practices for the avoidance, handling and release of unwanted catch.