American Oyster Integrated Fishery Management Plan (IFMP) : Eastern New Brunswick Area Gulf Region 2009-2012 [Fisheries and Oceans Canada, DFO]

"Anyone participating in the commercial oyster fishery in the Gulf Region must hold a licence. In 2006, there were 1574 commercial oyster licence holders in the Eastern New Brunswick Area. Fifty-three percent (53%) were coastal fishers and almost twenty-five percent (25%) of them had no other fishing licence"