Public Advisory: Resource Enforcement Division Salmon Poaching Investigations in White Bay and Green Bay Lead to Significant ChargesPublic Advisory: Resource Enforcement Division Salmon Poaching Investigations in White Bay and Green Bay Lead to Significant Charges

The article reports that there is an increased RCMP presence in Port Saunders due to an ongoing police operation. It states there is no immediate threat to public safety, and asks residents to avoid areas where officers are working and to refrain from posting images or information about police activities.

The article reports that RCMP in Newfoundland and Labrador consider the 2025 northeastern Newfoundland wildfire suspicious, with the major crimes unit leading the investigation and no arrests made yet. Police are appealing to witnesses and anyone with key information to come forward, while noting ongoing government assistance to affected households.

The Food Fishery Committee is calling on DFO to expand the recreational fishery on Newfoundland and Labrador’s south and west coasts to seven days a week. NTV reports on advocates pushing for this expansion, dated July 28, 2026.

The Newfoundland and Labrador government is funding the cleanup of the abandoned Atlantic Seafood Sauce Company plant in St. Mary’s, NL. Workers will remove about one million litres of material from 110 vats, using peat moss and transporting the waste to a lined pit in Sunnyside over the coming months.

Two individuals in Westport were arrested on June 14, 2026, after a surveillance operation led to the seizure of a boat, motor, and three Gill nets totaling over 500 feet, with charges including netting Atlantic salmon during a closed time and fishing without a licence. On July 1, 2026, another individual in Paddock’s Bight was apprehended for similar…