The FFAW is ramping up the rhetoric with an ad campaign that targets control of the province’s fisheries by a few big companies.

The action comes on the heels of last year’s approval of licence transfers to foreign-owned Royal Greenland. The acquisitions included several fish plants and made the company the single largest seafood processor in the province, after OCI and the Barry Group.

Union president Keith Sullivan says putting that much control in the hands of a few—domestic or foreign—threatens to further impact an already battered inshore fishery.

He says the union is seeing more and more examples of companies exploiting their dominance as a strategy to control all aspects of an industry, adding it’s becoming very problematic for union members and the communities where they live.

Sullivan also warned that Dutch-owned Royal Greenland has a track record of treating their employees poorly with lower wages across the board. He says as a result, Greenland’s inshore fishery is a shell of what it once was.