The numbers are not yet finalized, but the landed value of the province’s crab fishery is down significantly over last year.
FFAW Secretary-Treasurer Robert Keenan says they’re anticipating a decrease in landed value of about $100 million. That’s down about 20 to 25 per cent from the previous year.
Keenan says rather than COVID-19, a big contributor to that loss was crab prices that were not fairly set.
He says if crab prices were the way they should have been, then the decline would not have been as much.
