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"We have a shortened season, we have an increase in quota, and it's very important that we keep our focus not on what has happened, but where we need to go," ASP executive director Jeff Loder told reporters Tuesday.
A bitter standoff that shut down Newfoundland and Labrador's lucrative snow crab fishery for nearly six weeks came to an end on Friday.
The proposal sets $2.20 per pound as the minimum price of snow crab for the rest of the season. There is the opportunity for increases, which would be tied to the Urner Barry Index, which dictates the market price.
The head of Newfoundland and Labrador's Association of Seafood Producers is now putting negotiations with the Fish, Food & Allied Workers union out in the open, saying the union mischaracterized meetings between the two groups.
Jeff Loder of the Association of Seafood Producers is calling on the fisheries union to start the snow crab season despite low prices.