Federal Court sets aside Fisheries Department decision to cut 2023 juvenile eel fishing quotas

By Karunjit Singh ( April 1, 2025, 5:14 PM EDT) -- The Federal Court has overturned a federal government decision to cut the lucrative elver (juvenile eel) fishing quotas of eight licence holders by 13.7 per cent for the 2023 season, ruling that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) violated procedural fairness by not consulting the licence holders as it had previously promised....