Nova Scotia Lobster buyers want ‘above-board’ investment mechanism to secure supply

October 30, 2017 Canada

Next month, the season opens in Canada’s biggest lobster fishery but even before the first trap hits the water, there’s big news in southwestern Nova Scotia. It is a proposal from a coalition of prominent lobster dealers who want the federal government to grant them the authority to give loans to fishermen like a bank or any other financial institution. “They could put out the money, they would hold the mortgage and then they would have a business arrangement with [the] person owning the licence where they would, I assume, buy the product,” said Robert Thibault, spokesperson for the newly formed Western Nova Scotia Lobster Dealers Coalition. click here to read the story 12:40

"controlling agreements", BMC Seafoods; Peter Swimm, Deveau Fisheries; Dickie Malone, DFO, Dominic LeBlanc, James L. Mood Fisheries; Robert Newell, Nautical Seafoods; Joel German, Reg LeBlanc, Robert Thibault, Simply Fresh Seafoods;, Strictly Lobster; Cedric Robichaud, Terry Zinc of Xsealant Seafood., Wedgeport Lobster; Shawn Everett, Western Nova Scotia Lobster Dealers Coalition, Woods Harbour Lobster Co. Ltd.; Corey Mood

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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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