Panel Review Recommendations a Step in Right Direction for Inshore Fishery

October 14, 2022 Canada

Today, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador released the independent report reviewing sections 19.1 to 19.14 of the Fishing Industry Collective Bargaining Act. The report from independent reviewer, David Conway, outlines a number of recommendations aimed at modernizing parts of the collective bargaining model for the benefit of the inshore fishery. FFAW-Unifor has been an outspoken advocate for improvements to the collective bargaining process for fish harvesters and is optimistic that the recommendations in the report are an important step in improving both labour relations and the price setting process. >click to read the Press Release< 14:03

collective bargaining process, FFAW-Unifor, FFAW-Unifor President Keith Sullivan, Fishing Industry Collective Bargaining Act, for fish harvesters, independent reviewer David Conway, Minister Bernard Davis, Minister Derek Bragg, Newfoundland and Labrador, released the Independent Report, reviewing sections 19.1 to 19.14

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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