Fisheries pollution reports : prosecutions under the pollution control and habitat protection provisions of the Fisheries Act

Abstract

Volume 3 of Fisheries Pollution Reports (3 F.P.R.) primarily contains reasons for judgments for cases under the pollution control provisions (section 33) and the habitat protection provisions (section 31) of the Fisheries Act. A few cases under other sections of the Fisheries Act are also reported where the issues are relevant to sections 33 and 31. In the last two years a few judgments have been rendered under the Ocean Dumping Control Act and the Clean Air Act, and these cases are included near the end of this Volume. These two statutes are administered by Environment Canada. Conventional law reports ordinarily contain only the court's reasons for judgment. Fisheries Pollution, Reports also include remarks on sentencing and, in some cases, arguments by counsel before the courts. Since judgments and transcripts are available for a relatively small number of cases under sections 33 and 31 of the Fisheries Act, these additional materials on sentencing and arguments by counsel hopefully will be useful to some readers. Volume 1 of the Fisheries Pollution Reports was prepared in 1976 by simply photocopying the judgments that were available. Volume 2 of the Fisheries Pollution Reports was published in 1980 in the conventional format of law reports. Volume 2 and reprinted Volume 1 are available as a single volume. Volume 3 contains cases that were before the courts in 1980 to 1983. Some appeal decisions that were rendered in early 1984 were added to the end of this volume during final editing.