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Federal employment minister Pierre Poilievre says fish plants must boost wages

May 11, 2015 Canada

Canada’s employment minister says changes to temporary foreign worker legislation will not be reversed or delayed after complaints by New Brunswick fish plant owners. Pierre Poilievre says the solution to the shortage of workers that fish plant owners are concerned about is very simple, “hire unemployed New Brunswickers.” “Let me be blunt, employers do have to raise wages if they can’t attract enough employees. That’s the free market, that’s how it works.” Read the rest here 14:33

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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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