FFAW plans to protest unfair, larger quota cut to Newfoundland's inshore shrimp fishery vs. offshore
SEAFOOD.COM NEWS April 9, 2014
The head of the Fish, Food and Allied Workers (FFAW) union says cuts to the inshore quota for northern shrimp amount to “skull duggery.”
Meeting with reporters Monday at the FFAW’s office in St. John’s, president Earle McCurdy accused the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) of unfairly favouring the offshore sector, despite the fact harvesters with the inshore fleet have adjacency to the resource.
“There was what’s called an integrated fisheries management plan that’s supposed to guide the future of the fishery,”McCurdy said.
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