The closure comes just days after Canada's fisheries minister, Joanne Thompson, decided to increase this year's quota for Atlantic mackerel The quota for
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The mackerel and herring stocks are getting better, and the recent announcement by the federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), who decided to increase catches in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, is not to displease fishermen, especially lobsterers.