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Friday, February 26, 2010
Canadian ports closed to vessels from Greenland and Faroe Islands who are ignoring catch quotas
BY RANDY BOSWELL, CANWEST NEWS SERVICEFEBRUARY 16, 2010
Canada followed through Monday on a threat to close East Coast ports to fishing vessels from Greenland and the Faroe Islands after the Danish territories failed to agree to a 334-tonne shrimp quota in international waters off the Newfoundland coast.
The Danish-flagged fleets, objecting to the strict catch limits imposed last fall by the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization for the "3L" zone just beyond Canadian waters, had unilaterally set a 3,100-tonne Danish quota for northern shrimp.
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