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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.
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 Fish, Food & Allied Workers union and the Association of Seafood Producers are promising to set aside their combative history to work together this snow crab season.