NEW EXECUTIVE BOARD SWEARING IN TUES NOV 19

Please be advised that FFAW-Unifor is hosting its triennial Constitutional Convention next week at Quality Hotel and Suites in Gander. 160 delegates are registered to attend, representing all sectors of the Union.

Media are invited to attend portions of the event, as follows: Monday, November 18 at 1:15PM: INSHORE PANEL Safety At Sea: Bringing Harvesters Home Safely with Craig Parsons (NL-FHSA), Terry Billard (Cheryl &Diane), Eugene Carter (Elite Navigator ‘Lucky 7’), Mark Gould (Coast Guard SAR) and MOD Sherry Glynn (FFAW) (SALON A/B)

Monday, November 18 at 2:15PM: NSHORE PANEL Federal Lobbying and Building Strong Connections with Jason Spingle (FFAW), Jean Lanteigne (FRAPP), Carl Allen (MFU) and MOD Dwan Street (FFAW) (SALON A/B)

Monday, November 18 at 3:30PM: GENERAL PLENARY PANEL: NL Economic Sustainability & Development featuring Dwan Street, Kim Crosbie (Harris Centre), Mayor Percy Farwell (Gander), moderated by Sherry Glynn (FFAW)

Tuesday, November 19 at 9:15AM: General Plenary Panel: Competition and Fairness for NL Workers featuring Jennifer Murray (Unifor), Sherry Glynn (FFAW), James Farrell (FFAW), & Dwan Street (MOD)

Tuesday, November 19 at 4:15PM: Swearing in of the New Executive Board and New President Speech

Please note that we also plan to live stream these events on our Facebook page.

Best,

Courtney

Courtney Glode (she/her)
Director of Public Affairs

FFAW-Unifor
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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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