FISH-NL says it is disappointed to learn that the federal Competition Bureau has closed its investigation into recent allegations of collusion involving fish processing companies.

President Ryan Cleary says officials with the Competition Bureau indicated that the people they interviewed would not give up names, and they couldn’t get the information they needed to carry out an investigation.

Cleary claims that people in rural Newfoundland and Labrador fear repercussions for speaking out.

FISH-NL wrote the federal Competition Bureau in the spring, requesting an investigation be held into two separate allegations of collusion involving local fish processing companies.