Glovertown Fish plant has work, but no workers

December 15, 2013 Canada

In a province that has seen some of the highest unemployment rates in the country, it must be hard for employers to fathom there is a shortage of workers. Vaden Oram is one such employer scratching his head as to why he can’t get enough employees to work at his fish plant, Terra Vista, in Glovertown when there is plenty of opportunity. Actually, he said he’s not scratching his head too much, as he knows exactly why he’s struggling to fill the positions he currently has open on his sea urchin processing line. more@stjohnstelegram 20:25

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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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