Newfoundland Furious Over Clam Decision, Cripples Year-Round Employment in Grand Bank
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [CBC News] by Geoff Bartlett - Febraury 23, 2018
Federal Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc's decision to cleave off 25 per cent of the lucrative Arctic surf clam fishery and give it to a newly formed consortium of Indigenous groups has blindsided those who have depended on the industry on Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula for decades.
"This is an unprecedented move," Grand Bank Mayor Rex Matthews told CBC Radio's The Broadcast. "To come in and expropriate 25 per cent of a quota that we've had for ...
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