FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, Aug. 19, 2019

The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) supports calls for an independent authority to oversee the environment in the province’s offshore oil and gas industry.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Monday, Aug. 12th, 2019 

The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) is launching today its second membership drive for inshore harvesters to finally break free of the FFAW/Unifor.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Aug. 1st, 2019

Upwards of 30 inshore harvesters took over the Fisheries and Oceans office in Twillingate this morning to protest the department’s failure to open the caplin fishery off Newfoundland’s northeast coast in fishing zone 3K.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, July 18th, 2019

The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) has serious concerns over a proposal by the Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist to construct an annex adjacent to the church that could disturb the burial ground of thousands of migrant fishermen.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, July 11th, 2019

The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) is calling for an immediate halt to all fishing for northern cod outside of the small-scale stewardship fishery in light of alarming new research that questions the federal science on the state of the stock.

“The cod quality project serves no other purpose than to extract fish from fishermen, and into the FFAW.”— Jason Sullivan, FISH-NL’s secretary-treasurer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 26th, 2019

“There should be no difference between the fish and oil off our shores in terms of who the principle beneficiary must be — Newfoundland and Labrador.”

— Ryan Cleary, President of FISH-NL

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, May 31st, 2019

The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) is asking the federal Competition Bureau to investigate an allegation of collusion involving fish processing companies on the Great Northern Peninsula.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, May 29th, 2019

The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) says emergency financial assistance announced recently by Ottawa for inshore harvesters kept ashore by severe ice conditions won’t end up helping many of them out.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019

The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) is against proposals that could see 25 per cent of the northern cod quota allocated to harvesters from Labrador and processed there.