New Brunswick lobster processors say changes to the Temporary Foreign Workers Program will force them to move jobs out of the province. The federal government imposed restrictions on the program to curtail alleged abuses that left Canadian workers jobless. Read more here 07:47
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
pay the wage you need to pay to fill the positions…we already have shipped enough fish overseas for processing…let’s try not to outsource our jobs via this TFW program, cause that is what you are effectively doing…Foreign Factory freezer trawlers can’t do lobster, otherwise the plants would be gone already…