Fish companies and the union have not been able to hammer out a mutually agreeable price for snow crab, so it’s on to an interventionist situation.
The FFAW and the Association of Seafood Producers rarely reach a deal without some type of third-party dispute resolution.
The fishing season is often delayed for one reason or another, but there’s an urgency to getting on the water as soon as possible this year because of the threat of a 25 per cent tariff on fish exports to the United States April 2.