While Northeast Atlantic mackerel stocks plummet, European nations are exploiting Russia’s pariah status to justify their own ...

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has increased the 2026 total allowable catch for Atlantic mackerel, a fish commonly used for bait in the lobster and tuna fisheries, from 500 tonnes in 2025 to 1 ...

Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has announced an increase in the total allowable catch (TAC) of both ...

Schools of Atlantic mackerel return to Canada’s eastern shores each spring, and so do shoreline fishermen like Terry Couisineau. As a boy, Mr. Couisineau reeled in the day’s reward by the bucketful: ...

Fisheries and Oceans Canada has extended the closure of Atlantic mackerel commercial and bait fishing in Atlantic Canada and Quebec for the 2023 season. In a notice to fish harvesters on Wednesday, ...

For the Atlantic herring fall fishery in the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, DFO has increased the total allowable catch to 15 ...

Atlantic mackerel should no longer be considered a sustainable seafood, according to the UK's leading ocean charity. Populations of the oily fish - often bought as smoked fillets or in tins - have ...

OTTAWA, ON, July 3, 2026 /CNW/ - Today, the Honourable Joanne Thompson, Minister of Fisheries, announced an increase in Total Allowable Catch (TAC) for both the Atlantic mackerel fishery and the ...

I must be honest, of all the fish I have fished for and all the fish I have eaten, mackerel are my favorite. Many people just don’t like “fishy” tasting fish, but I love mackerel. In the 1970s, when I ...