There is discontent from several quarters in Labrador over this year’s expanded commercial cod fishery.

The quota in 2J3KL, that’s roughly from southern Labrador to the southern Avalon, is now up to 60,000 metric tonnes, about a 55 per cent increase over last year.

The inshore fishery gets 70 per cent, the offshore 20 and the indigenous people 10 per cent.

However, the Labrador Fishermen’s Union Shrimp Company says the federal government chose to give the fish to its friends rather than show fairness.

President and CEO Dwight Russell says the increase benefits Icewater Seafoods and Ocean Choice international, two island-based companies which already dominate the offshore northern cod fishery. He says the cod stock is largely off the shores of southern Labrador, so the management plan amounts to taking from the north and giving to the south.

The Nunatsiavut Government is also displeased, calling on Ottawa to go back to the drawing board and allocate more resources for their communities.