The FFAW’s e-petition on northern cod in the House of Commons is picking up steam.
The union launched the petition at the beginning of the month to coincide with their campaign to have Ottawa’s decision to have a commercial cod fishery this year reversed.
The online document has received roughly 700 signatures thus far. About one third of those have come from outside this province.
Last week, the FFAW ramped up its efforts to push the feds on the topic by disrupting a news conference at the Sheraton Hotel involving the federal environment minister and his provincial counterparts.
Meanwhile, Premier Andrew Furey says Quebec Premier Francois Legault indicated his support for NL’s call for joint management of the fishery in discussions they held yesterday.
Furey calls allowing foreign trawlers access to northern cod stocks in exchange for a 5,000 tonne increase “unacceptable.”
“It requires a moment of reflection on how we got here,” Furey told VOCM News. “A whole generation of people moved away, and those who stayed nursed this resource back to good health, and to have it potentially being fished by foreign trawlers is unacceptable and runs the risk of history repeating itself.”