Fishing Surveillance
The management of Canadian fisheries requires an integrated approach to surveillance and control activities that involves Fishery Officers on patrols, the presence of observers on board fishing vessels, dockside monitoring and a remote electronic surveillance system.
The activities of Fisheries Officers are geared to enforcing fisheries legislation, policies and plans to ensure the conservation and sustainable development of resources.
Fishery Officer Career
Quebec Region Fishery Officers enforce the regulations concerning species that live and reproduce in the sea. To fulfill this mandate, they are deployed in maritime territory to patrol the Gaspesie, North Shore, Magdalen Islands and Northern Quebec areas.
Their varied tasks mainly fall into three types of activities:
- awareness;
- control, monitoring and surveillance;
- serious infractions and special investigations.