The Member for Bonavista-Burin-Trinity says he supports the federal reopening of the commercial northern cod fishery because of what he calls the “balanced approach” taken.

Churence Rogers says the decision prioritizes the inshore while recognizing Indigenous commitments, while supporting communities and the hundreds of workers in his riding that depend on the offshore.

He says with 84 per cent of the quota, there is “huge opportunity” for the inshore and that DFO made the “right decision.”

The proof, says Rogers in a release issued on Friday, is “the faces of the workers at Icewater Seafoods in Arnold’s Cove,” and the potential for other offshore plants in Grand Bank, Fortune, St. Lawrence and Bonavista.