(Courtesy of Department of Fisheries and Oceans)
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is holding its annual roundtable in Moncton today to review the 2019 season of the endangered North Atlantic right whale.
Representatives will include members of the fishing industry, provincial governments, marine mammal experts and Indigenous communities.
Fisheries management measures will be discussed along with options for next year.
No decisions will be made at this meeting.
The media is not invited to the roundtable but DFO is expected to provide an update on Friday.
As of October 31, DFO says surveillance flights spotted 132 individual right whales this year in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Bay of Fundy.
Eight whales were found dead in Canadian waters in 2019.
Management measures for the 2020 fishing season will be announced in the new year.
