FISH-NL plans second certification application for 2019, but only if harvesters step up to the plate – 2

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, Oct. 24th, 2018

The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) announced plans today to move forward with a second application for certification in 2019, but only if inshore harvesters agree to pay dues.

“FISH-NL can’t do this for harvesters, we can only do it with harvesters,” says Ryan Cleary, President of FISH-NL. “The membership dues will be the deciding factor in the future of FISH-NL.”

On Sept. 28th — 21 months after FISH-NL filed an application on behalf of inshore harvesters who want to break away from the FFAW-Unifor — the province’s Labour Relations Board dismissed the application.

While FISH-NL strongly disagrees with the decision, and the fact it took 21 months to make, Cleary said the union will not appeal.

“The plan is to hold a FISH-NL convention this fall, followed by the submission of another certification application in 2019,” he added. “But we can’t continue just on donations from harvesters, and Go Fund Me campaigns.”

FISH-NL’s executive has unanimously decided that for FISH-NL to continue a minimum of 500 inshore harvesters must sign on to pay monthly dues of $24 a month or $300 a year by the end of October.

“Every one knows there’s support on the wharf, and that the FFAW no longer represents the best interests of harvesters, but the time has come to do something about it, because the time won’t come again. We have Goliath where we want him.”

FISH-NL plans to spend the next week determining whether enough dues-paying members are prepared to sign on to continue its fight.

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Contact: Ryan Cleary 682 4862

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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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