FISH-NL writes Premier with ‘serious concerns’ over relationship between FFAW and provincial corporation that runs fish harvester registration
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, Aug. 30th, 2019
The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) has written the premier with serious concerns about how the provincial corporation responsible for the professionalization of inshore harvesters has been portraying itself.
Read moreFISH-NL supports calls for independent offshore environmental authority; FFAW-Unifor must come clean with oil industry funding
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.
Read moreInshore harvesters offered second chance to break free of FFAW-Unifor
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.
Read moreCaplin harvesters take over DFO office in Twillingate
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.
Read moreFISH-NL concerned over church’s proposal to build over final resting place of thousands of migrant fishermen
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.
Read moreFISH-NL calls for immediate halt to all fishing for northern cod outside stewardship fishery; independent assessment of DFO science
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.
Read moreFISH-NL calls for elimination of cod quality program; five years later and price per pound has declined
“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
Read moreFISH-NL asks Ottawa for review of quota-sharing arrangements of adjacent stocks
“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
Read moreFISH-NL calls on federal Competition Bureau to investigation allegation of collusion among processing companies
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.
Read moreFISH-NL says rules around ice compensation mean few harvesters will qualify, calls on Ottawa to amend program
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.
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