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Keith Sullivan, president of Fish, Food and Allied Workers-Unifor. — SaltWire Network file photoDerek Butler, “Fishery chaos, 2022: lather, rinse, repeat,”According to Mr. Butler, fish harvesters in Newfoundland and Labrador are living like kings and queens while the poor processing companies struggle to balance the books. It’s a tale that’s been spun by Butler and his cronies with the Association of Seafood Producers since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Something that should be posed of Mr. Butler: if a plant is shut down, who is benefitting? It certainly isn’t the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. It isn’t harvesters who are entirely reliant on local plants purchasing their product. It isn’t plant workers who rely on the plant operating for at least 14 weeks a year. It isn’t the thousands of other related industries that rely or supplement the inshore fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Information like product yields and prices received at market are not divulged by companies – because that would mean the true value of company gouging would be known by all. Of course, Derek Butler blames the problem on harvesters and the Panel when in reality it’s the stranglehold that the few processing companies have over the Newfoundland and Labrador fishery and the refusal of our government to act.
Provincial Minister Derek Bragg’s decision to increase snow crab capacity by a mere three per cent and attempt to pass it off as a win for the people of the province shows just how blatantly our politicians are in the pocket of companies. Now, a small handful of companies control the vast majority of the Newfoundland and Labrador fishery. These companies exert control over harvesters by dictating when they can fish and for how much, and the harvester cannot sell elsewhere.
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