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Jeff Loder of the Association of Seafood Producers is calling on the fisheries union to start the snow crab season despite low prices.

The newest player in the Newfoundland and Labrador aquaculture industry plans to harvest its first market-sized fish from Placentia Bay this fall, but Grieg's surprising plan for processing that salmon is raising eyebrows.

The trade association that represents Newfoundland and Labrador's seafood processors says each day fishermen keep their boats tied up in the hopes of getting a better crab price is only making an already dire season worse.

On Tuesday morning, crab fishermen in St. John's were checking their equipment, touching up paint, loading in supplies — everything except getting out on the water and fishing.

Plant workers worry about impacts on jobs if season is delayed for weeks

It started out six weeks ago as a rare show of unity between the fisheries union and seafood producers, but efforts to agree on a price formula for this year's snow crab harvest have ended in failure.

The mackerel population is a shadow of what it once was, and its decline threatens the well-being of the people who depend on it

A week of angry protests by inshore crab harvesters from eastern Newfoundland cooled slightly Friday following the promise of a review of their concerns and a meeting between union and fisheries officials on Monday.

Two distinct biomasses have been created in Zone 3L, spanning from Conception Bay to St. Mary's Bay as far as Bonavista Bay. Fisherman Jason Sullivan says that leaves inshore harvesters without their fair share of catch.

In a press release sent on Mar. 30, 2022, the Fisheries and Oceans Canada said the Atlantic mackerel stock is in the “critical zone,” and that “urgent action” must be taken to allow the stock to recover.