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It is truly amazing that 527 years after the first fish were drawn in baskets from Newfoundland waters, we are not able to agree on just about every aspect of it.
Hundreds of fish harvesters and their supporters continued to protest at the Confederation Building on Thursday morning. - Joe Gibbons/The Telegram A moratorium in the 1990s, still with effects today, and many, many more issues, changed the fishery to what it is today. A federal government who determines who can catch fish and how much and the size of a boat, the type of gear and the season. A province that decides what happens to the catch once it is landed.And herein lies the problem, and the protests that resulted in the first time in the province’s history that the provincial budget had to be postponed.
Additionally, the association decides when and how much they will purchase from individual fishers. So, if a fisher has a quota of 10,000 pounds of crab, for example, set by DFO, he may be told by the association that he's only allowed to catch 1,500 pounds every two weeks --not unlike having to tell a farmer that he can only grow 1,000 pounds of potatoes a week.Then added to the mix is the Fish Food and Allied Workers Union, which has now affiliated with Unifor .
And herein lies the main problem. They can’t set the price the association has to pay harvesters for their product. The government can’t tell Sobey’s how much to charge for a tin of Heinz beans. And it has to ensure that if product is caught in the province, it is processed in the province maximizing employment.
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