A broad coalition of inshore harvester associations are telling the federal government to slow down and get it right, as we march toward plans to harvest one of the largest fish stocks in the world.
FFAW President Keith Sullivan is calling on Ottawa to suspend its consultation process and establish a new one which allows for meaningful engagement and transparency.
The coalition says the current process is rushed.
DFO’s allocation decision on redfish in the Gulf of St. Lawrence will determine for decades to come the economic future of scores of communities on the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, and Quebec.
The biomass is greater than 4.3-million metric tonnes.
When it opens in a couple of years, the fishery will be able to sustain thousands of jobs on land and at sea in the three provinces for the next 40 years.