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Getting Screwed – Fish plant workers wonder if OCI can live up to employment promises

May 23, 2015 Canada

Fish plant workers on Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula say they’re not confident in assurances about jobs and are questioning whether their employer is living up to promises it made. The fish plant in Marystown is currently being demolished after Ocean Choice International (OCI) shut it down in 2011. For Allan Moulton, who worked at the plant for 42 years, it’s a heartbreaking sight. Read the rest here 09:53

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Ocean Choice International (OCI) charged with 8 violations in connection with 2012 death

January 24, 2014 Canada

Ocean Choice International (OCI) has been charged with violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations in connection with the death of a worker onboard a shrimp trawler almost two years ago. The fatal incident happened on board the Katsheshuk II while it was en route from the Funk Island Bank to Bay Roberts in February 2012. Read more@cbcnews 10:46

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No takers for extra yellowtail quota – ‘We didn’t get a single proposal come forward,’ Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Derrick Dalley

August 20, 2013 Canada

The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador says there has been no interest from any parties wanting to access some of the two-million pounds of unused yellowtail flounder that it put up for grabs this past December. more@cbcnews 14:18

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Bad Deal Scrutinized – OCI was granted government approval to ship out all of its redfish and 75 per cent of its yellowtail flounder unprocessed.

August 16, 2013 Canada

[ST. JOHN’S, NL] – Liberal fisheries critic, MHA Jim Bennett, is still putting pressure on the provincial government to release details on the progression of a deal with Ocean Choice International (OCI) which granted the company an export exemption to ship out unprocessed fish. more@dailybusinessbuzz

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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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