Nice over fishing here I come, so much for buying local, short term profits over long term sustainability…
Seemed more like a way for fishermen to make more money, have better control over their lives, than any changing of yearly catch limits.
From the article “they’ve also reached agreements on introducing new processing licences and increasing processing limits, in an effort to promote more competition”
I’m not 100% sure but it seems an increase in processing limits means an increase in finishing?
My concern is that with an increase in the artificial limits already in place it will strain an ecosystem that is already reaching a tipping point and potentially a full collapse in a few generations.
Ohh well, I suppose our children will tell their children it was worth it as for a brief moment in time we increased shareholders profits.
I don’t know jack diddly about fishing laws, but when I read the story I thought the processing limits were per processing plant. Not the total limits. I very well could be wrong.
I do know that my parents lived in Newfoundland in the '60s. My dad would go out with a friend on their little boat, drop a line with a hook overboard, jig it a little, and cod would swim up and bite the hook. Nothing on the hook, just a plain hook, but there were so many cod it was ridiculous. I think it’s a bare fraction of what it used to be.
And I love that comic. I’ve shared it so many times over the years.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
John Efford Jr. fought back tears as he announced the news to hundreds of fish harvesters standing before him — they’d struck a deal with the Newfoundland and Labrador government to end days of protests, including a raucous one Wednesday that cancelled the provincial budget.
In a statement issued Friday afternoon, Fisheries Minister Elvis Loveless called the meeting positive and said talks will continue.
The situation reached a climax Wednesday, when fishermen and their supporters shut down Confederation Building and prevented the provincial government from introducing its annual budget.
They returned Thursday, prompting the Liberal government to go ahead with introducing the budget in the House of Assembly despite the absence of opposition parties, unions and most media outlets.
A few hundred metres away, police in riot gear stood ready for any outcome, taping off a section outside Confederation Building where chaos had erupted in previous days.
“After weeks of fighting the Furey Liberals, harvesters and crew members finally got a deal,” the statement said, "We’ll also continue to monitor progress.
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