Category: Campbellton

The Commons Committee on Fisheries and Oceans wants the depoartment to come up with a rebuilding plan for northern cod immediately.

Its report says decimated cod stocks are showing signs of a slow rebuilding almost 25 years after the fishing moratorium was imposed in 1992.

Committee chair Scott Simms says the recovery needs to be handled properly because of cod’s importantance to the region, and there shiould be annual studies to monitor their recovery.

A number people in the Manitoba border town of Emerson are getting upset how illegal asylum-seekers are behaving in town.

A group of three people were allegedly ringing doorbells at four in the morning looking for help, while another was seen peering into windows.

Local Reeve Greg Janzen says he would like the R-C-M-P to continue upping security.

He says the reported behaviour is “a little rude.”