After a marathon session Friday, union and government officials will meet again tomorrow to try to nail down a compromise in a dispute over the price of snow crab.

The FFAW says the companies owe harvesters over $100-million to square up price fluctuations in the market over the course of the season, a claim which the Association of Seafood Producers flatly denies. The companies say the extra 28 cents per pound paid out after the season ended was arrived at by using the FFAW’s own formula. The union says that amount should have been over a dollar per pound.

The union has presented government with four demands including that it prevent anyone with a processing license from being able to ship out unprocessed crab, and that it establish a new price-setting process to set annual minimum prices for crab.

President Dwan Street notes the gap in prices between the two crab stocks – Gulf of St. Lawrence and Newfoundland and Labrador. She says it used to be 9 cents per pound but last year the difference ballooned to $1.06 per pound, NL being the lower price.