Fish harvesters say the recent calls for bids for parcels of land by the C-NLOPB puts their livelihoods at risk.
The bids close Wednesday so the FFAW, saying it has exhausted all other avenues, has submitted a mock bid of $1-billion. That represents the crab grounds worth $25-million a year extrapolated over time to coincide with the life of an oil well.
Harvesters do not understand why governments and regulators would risk a renewable resource for a non-renewable one.
Glen Winslow of St. John’s wants Premier Ball and Minister Coady to have a change of heart and call off the bids.
He says it all started as a pin drop and has now grown many times over in size.