Another one gone...Fish News

This is ridiculous! Unacceptable!
Every time I tune into the Fisheries Broadcast or Nightline another fisherman or plant worker from one part of rural Newfoundland and Labrador or another is packing up their family or going alone to Alberta or other points west.

Today it was Gary Genge from Anchor Point a shrimp fisherman and sealer. For the first time in his life he has to go away to Alberta to make ends meet.
There is no income stablization for him or for others he says have to leave the community - yet there is for farmers.

What is with you Loyola and Danny - why are allowing the destruction of Newfoundland and Labrador - instead of fighting for our survival. If Chuck can do it for the farmers - whose industry is not controlled and managed by the feds - surely you can make it happen for the fishermen and plant workers who are losing their livlihoods because of federal mismanagement.
Then Loyola H gets on and talks about his consideration of banning the Hakipik by the upcoming season. Apparently Danny and Loyola got together for a gab-fest and got around to the seal-harvest. The two geniuses think that banning the tool will improve optics.

Yep and when we stopped the white-coat harvest that ended all those optics too. These two individuals together are probably doing more damage to rural Newfoundland and Labrador than has been done since the moratorium.

Then we have the Barry Group buying the FPI plant in Harbour Breton without the town even knowing - so says councillor Eric Day. The community wanted ownership of the plant for a couple of years so they could control who the new operator would be. They have been negotiating with the province for almost 3 years and have been entertaining proposals from operators to occupy and run the plan.

We have Ramea still out on a shaky limb and Fortune in limbo. We have the Premier suggesting that workers look at wage reductions while Minister Hearn is looking at banning the hakipik while refusing to make public the deal reached with seal-harvest protestors to avoid going to court - all the while appealing to a higher court a ruling for the sealers.

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