The president of SEA-NL claims that Quinsea-Royal Greenland is not purchasing crab from the under 40 fleet.

The crab fishery just came out of a lengthy impasse between buyers and harvesters in a dispute over crab prices.

The FFAW reluctantly signed off on the latest offer late last week to allow boats back on the water, but the price of crab has not budged from the initial price set back in the spring.

SEA-NL is an advocacy group for enterprise owners in the province’s inshore. President Pam Patten told VOCM Open Line with Paddy Daly this morning that one buyer is not purchasing from the inshore fleet.

She claims Quinsea-Royal Greenland is making the smaller boats wait, leaving those operators with no-where to sell their crab. She estimates there are hundreds, if not thousands of harvesters who can’t fish crab at this time.