MEDIA RELEASE: ASP Cartel Resorts to Intimidation & Bad Faith as Industry Control Slips

May 9, 2025 Canada

FFAW-Unifor, representing over 13,000 professional fish harvesters and processing workers in Newfoundland and Labrador, is condemning the actions of the Association of Seafood Producers (ASP) and its member companies for escalating intimidation tactics. In recent days, ASP has blocked Newfoundland and Labrador harvesters from offloading snow crab in other Maritime provinces and pressured a non-member buyer to disclose private business information and comply with baseless demands. “ASP’s recent actions expose a desperate cartel struggling to maintain its grip on an industry opening to competition,” says FFAW-Unifor President Dwan Street. “Their attempts to undermine an independent buyer and their blatant threats to companies against purchasing from Newfoundland and Labrador harvesters reveal a corrupt system fighting to suppress fair market practices.” more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 11:20

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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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