Forget Fiona, don't touch the lobster; DFO tweet latest sign dept out of touch with the peasants
David Boyd of Twillingate pulled no punches when it came to DFO's incredibly insensitive tweet on the morning that Fiona slammed into...
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rryancleary
- 5 days ago
- 2 min
SEA-NL recommends electronic fish auction pilot project for 2023 season
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, Sept. 23rd, 2022 Seaward Enterprises Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (SEA-NL) recommends the...
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rryancleary
- 7 days ago
- 4 min
Vicious fishery circle; how fish pricing in NL got so screwed up (and nobody talks about it)
Twenty five years ago this January a provincial government-appointed Task Force investigated how the price of fish was negotiated for the...
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rryancleary
- Sep 20
- 2 min
DFO to consult on changes to fishing vessel registration rules with eye on East Coast consistency
Details of those consultations — including dates, and other logistics — aren’t worked out just yet. However, DFO revealed its intentions...
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rryancleary
- Sep 16
- 2 min
Holy mackerel, still time for Ottawa to repent for mistake of shutting down Atlantic fishery
Seven months after DFO Ottawa slapped a moratorium on Atlantic mackerel, the inshore fleet reports the waters off Newfoundland's...
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rryancleary
- Sep 13
- 9 min
SEA-NL recommends electronic fish auction pilot project; opening doors to outside buyers
That was the guts of SEA-NL’s submission to the provincial government-ordered review of its broken down, anti-competitive fish-pricing...
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rryancleary
- Sep 12
- 2 min
'Great snow crab price collapse’ of 2022 may be over; slight turnaround registered in U.S. market
Two of North America’s leading seafood news outlets — Undercurrent and Urner Barry — have reported signs that the price of snow crab from...
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rryancleary
- Sep 8
- 2 min
How high will 2023 snow crab price reach? (Who knows, but deadline Friday for price-setting review)
The price of fish may directly impact all 3,200 inshore fishing enterprises in every nook and cranny of this province, but don't expect...
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rryancleary
- Sep 7
- 2 min
SEA-NL poll: 96% support for reopening commercial mackerel fishery (log every mackerel in bycatch)
96% of respondents (363 votes) to an informal overnight SEA-NL Facebook poll on The Newfoundland Fisherman's Forum agree DFO should...
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rryancleary
- Sep 6
- 3 min
‘Some survival notes for Newfoundland’
Cabot Martin was one of only a handful of Newfoundlanders I’ve ever met with his head fully around the fishery — northern cod in...
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rryancleary
- Aug 31
- 2 min
FFAW new sec-treasurer key figure in lawsuit union lost to members; SEA-NL questions accountability
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, Aug. 31st, 2022 Seaward Enterprises Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (SEA-NL) questions...
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rryancleary
- Aug 31
- 2 min
FFAW election today: fishermen not included, no issues on table, accountability non-existent
The FFAW-Unifor’s election for a new, second-in-command to replace former secretary-treasurer Robert Keenan is today, but most of the...
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rryancleary
- Aug 30
- 1 min
DFO Minister Joyce Murray reportedly stepping down; any chance a NLer will step up?
Reuters news agency reports this evening that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is slated to make a minor cabinet shuffle Wednesday (Aug....
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rryancleary
- Aug 30
- 3 min
DFO no idea what killed krill off south coast (took almost month just to confirm species)
Fisheries and Oceans has confirmed the species that washed up on the shores of Fortune Bay in late July were krill rather than shrimp,...
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rryancleary
- Aug 26
- 1 min
Search and rescue services must top Ottawa’s Labrador agenda: SEA-NL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, Aug. 26th, 2022 National Defence runs Canada's fleet of Cormorant search and rescue helicopters, including...
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rryancleary
- Aug 25
- 2 min
‘Never seen the likes of it before’: inshore skippers report record mackerel off northeast coast
Five months after Ottawa shut down the Atlantic mackerel fishery, enterprise owners are encountering record amounts of the fish along...
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rryancleary
- Aug 23
- 3 min
Broken 3Ps promise; offshore draggers still allowed to fish cod when quota far below 10,000 tonnes
The inshore fleet on the south coast believed for 20 years there was a 10,000-tonne threshold before offshore factory-freezer trawlers...
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rryancleary
- Aug 19
- 2 min
FFAW-Unifor election ‘democratic farce’: SEA-NL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Friday, Aug. 19th, 2022 Seaward Enterprises Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (SEA-NL) calls the election...
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rryancleary
- Aug 16
- 2 min
Almost 5 million/lbs of northern cod left in water from 2021 season should be rolled over: SEA-NL
The 4.8 million pounds of northern cod that was not caught in the 2021 stewardship fishery off Labrador and eastern Newfoundland should...
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rryancleary
- Aug 12
- 3 min
Faroese longliner accused six times within year of illegal fishing proves NAFO useless: SEA-NL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, Aug. 12, 2022 The Faroese longliner Bordoyarnes has been cited six times since September, 2021 by DFO...
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