{"id":919389,"date":"2026-10-03T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919389\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T19:00:13","slug":"france-hasnt-issued-crab-licence-off-newfoundland-despite-surprising-pledge-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919389\/","title":{"rendered":"France hasn&#8217;t issued crab licence off Newfoundland, despite surprising pledge: Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. JOHN\u2019S \u2014 Canada\u2019s fisheries minister says France has not issued any new snow crab licences off Newfoundland, despite a surprising promise last month by French President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n<p>Joanne Thompson says the Canadian government has been in contact with French officials to confirm no licence has been issued.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, she says any licensing matters would be discussed by the countries through formal, well-established processes, and no such talks have taken place.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, news outlets including franceinfo and Radio-Canada reported Macron pledged to grant an exploratory licence to harvest 1,500 tonnes of snow crab to a company in St-Pierre-Miquelon, a small French archipelago off the southeast coast of Newfoundland.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed licence is in an area Canada claims through the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, and Thompson says her government does not support foreign snow crab fishing in the region.<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s promise appeared to take Canadian officials by surprise, especially as the news broke a day after Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Macron in St-Pierre-Miquelon.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Halifax as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=halifax.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791054013_767_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. JOHN\u2019S \u2014 Canada\u2019s fisheries minister says France has not issued any new snow crab licences off Newfoundland,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[6763,49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-919389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-atlantic","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}