Canadian Fishermen Urged to End Blockade
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PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia — Canada’s federal fisheries minister on Monday asked angry fishermen to release an Alaska ferry, saying they had made their point in a three-day protest over sockeye salmon quotas and what they view as illegal fishing by Alaskans.
But the fishermen maintained their hull-to-hull blockade of the ferry Malaspina, even as authorities went from boat to boat reading a court order to end the impasse.
“The United States has protested and continues to protest this blockade,” State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns said.
The ferry blockade was snarling tourist traffic up and down the Pacific Northwest coast.
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