It's a non-profit collabrative effort of government, fishermen and the private sector aimed at several objectives:
- Increase scientific knowledge surrounding lobster biology and habitat;
- Provide an educational tool for raising awareness amongst stakeholders concerning the need for sustaining the resource, protecting the habitat and rehabilitating lobster stocks; and,
- Introduce practical and effective approaches to enhancing lobster habitat and lobster stocks in our coastal waters.
A stand-alone corporation devoted to a single ocesan species with enormous economic value: now there's a direction the FFAW should be taking rather than clawing a paltry ten grand from the provincial government in order to have local lobster fishermen keep records of their catches.
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