NL fisheries union calls for government intervention over crab processing

June 27, 2025 Canada, Featured

The union representing fish harvesters and plant workers in Newfoundland and Labrador wants the provincial government to immediately get involved in its ongoing dispute with processors. According to FFAW-Unifor, there is an escalating crisis affecting crab processing workers across the province and those plant workers have been waiting for more than a month to arrange a meeting with provincial Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture Minister Lisa Dempster. The union has accused companies that are members of the Association of Seafood Producers (ASP), the entity that represents the province’s fish processing businesses, of limiting interprovincial competition for fish harvesters. This, according to FFAW-Unifor, has led to reduced hours of work at plants and economic hardships for the workers employed by processors. 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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