Canadian minister calls for G7 ‘naming and shaming’ on ocean overfishing
OTTAWA — Canada’s fisheries minister wants the G7 to use military and other surveillance technology to name and shame countries that are conducting massive illegal overfishing operations.
Dominic LeBlanc isn’t ready to name countries yet, but he said Tuesday he has seen recent Canadian Forces satellite images that shocked him — and would shock the conscience of others if they were made public.
“I don’t think, frankly, that we have enough consensus with G7 partners and other partners because it’s not only the G7 that wants to deal with this,” LeBlanc said in an interview.
One particular image that he viewed was particularly shocking. It depicted an eight-kilometre long net that was scooping more than 400,000 kilograms of wild salmon in the Pacific Ocean, he said.