Daily Archives: February 5, 2025
Seafood sector is united in face of tariff threats, says N.L.’s fisheries minister
A unified effort to navigate the Newfoundland and Labrador seafood industry through the uncertainty of U.S. tariff threats began on Wednesday, with more than two dozen people joining by video conference in the first fishery roundtable meeting. The meeting was chaired by Fisheries Minister Gerry Byrne, who described the discussions as “one of the best meetings I’ve ever hosted.” The meeting was spawned from a broader premier’s roundtable that was assembled last month in response to a threat from U.S. President Donald Trump to place a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods entering the U.S. market, including seafood. Joining the meeting were leaders in all sectors of the fishery, including union leaders, processors, harvesters, marketing specialists and the aquaculture industry. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 18:42
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Fishing back in the offshore wind firing line
The NFFO has criticized the moves by the UK government to expand the network of marine protected areas – with the intention of offsetting the damage caused by offshore wind. The announcement has been made by Minister for Water and Flooding Emma Hardy – and the Minister for Water and Flooding Emma Hardy described this as demonstrating the ‘Labour government’s green credentials: they are enthusiastically recycling a policy snatched from the wreckage of their Conservative predecessors.’ ‘Time and again, the authorities have granted permission for offshore wind farms to be built on the basis of environmental impact assessment reports invariably stating that each proposed development will cause no significant harm. Now those same developments are apparently so damaging that a slew of new marine protected areas is necessary to make up for it. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 11:25
Lifelong Harpswell Neck fisherman remembered as cribbage competitor, neighborhood mentor
Sheldon Morse Sr. died Dec. 5, two weeks shy of his 86th birthday. He lived his whole life on the land where he grew up on Allen Point Road, fishing into his late 70s on a boat he built with his father and named after his daughter. Family and fishing were the focal points of his life. Sheldon grew up around his father’s boat shop, but he wanted to be out on the water. He started with a few traps and a skiff as a teenager. He was fishing that same way near the end of his life, when he couldn’t operate his lobster boat anymore. His grandson, Josh Morse, is also a fisherman and lives with his family down the road from his grandfather’s house. The two of them built the skiff that Joshua first fished from, and Sheldon’s Teresa Ann was the first boat that Josh worked on. Sheldon’s youngest granddaughter, Lauren Webster, remembers her grandparents’ house as a place where she and her cousins could be kids, with as many Popsicles and grilled cheese sandwiches as they could eat. photos, more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 09:03
Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 65′ Gladding & Hearn Steel Lobster Boat, Cummins 855
To review specifications, information, with 24 photos, >click here<. To see all the boats in this series >click here< 06:35
ASMFC Public Hearings on Northern Shrimp Draft Amendment 4
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