It should come as no surprise to anyone that the fishery, as we have known it for centuries, is on life support.
FPI or no FPI, the entire industry needs an overhaul and someone with the guts to do it rather than pandering to the processors and fishers.
Trawlers (both domestic and foriegn) need to be banned.
Custodial management needs to be put in place and enforced.
Fish plants need to be allowed to shut down if they are not profitable. There are too many and are being used as a stamp factory.
We need to return to a more reasonable small boat fishery that allows for reasonable numbers to be caught without raping the entire biomass.
We also need to focus on high end products for export markets. If we provide a smaller quantity with far higher quality there is a future.
Aquaculture is important and will eventually be a big part of the solution but there is still a future in the wild fishery if someone has the willpower to do what's right for once.
I couldn't agree more touton. There's a lot of big changes there though eh? Do we have the guts to do it. On a community level, provincial level and federal level. There is a role to play by all.
I think the approach should first be an environmental protection one, on a global scale. This would involve the custodial management you mentioned as well as a ban on distructive fishing methods. Those big ones have to happen at the federal level. On a local community level there has to be the support to back these drastic changes.
Outport and rural Newfoundland and Labrador have to be a first consideration but we can't allow a resource to be offered up for destruction. Outport N&L would have survived forever with the small boat fisheries - we need a return to that I agree.
Our government system does not allow for to fishery to repair itself. The government doesn't care about the fishery, it cares about votes, so they can stay in office. That's what it is all about, staying in office. They spread promises about the rosy future and then toss in millions of taxpayer dollars into their new initiatives that is supposed to make things better. Control of the fishery ultimately must be placed in the owners of this resource, the fishermen who rely on it. They will know how to handle it, not some bureaucrat in St. John's or Ottawa.
3 comments:
It should come as no surprise to anyone that the fishery, as we have known it for centuries, is on life support.
FPI or no FPI, the entire industry needs an overhaul and someone with the guts to do it rather than pandering to the processors and fishers.
Trawlers (both domestic and foriegn) need to be banned.
Custodial management needs to be put in place and enforced.
Fish plants need to be allowed to shut down if they are not profitable. There are too many and are being used as a stamp factory.
We need to return to a more reasonable small boat fishery that allows for reasonable numbers to be caught without raping the entire biomass.
We also need to focus on high end products for export markets. If we provide a smaller quantity with far higher quality there is a future.
Aquaculture is important and will eventually be a big part of the solution but there is still a future in the wild fishery if someone has the willpower to do what's right for once.
I couldn't agree more touton. There's a lot of big changes there though eh? Do we have the guts to do it. On a community level, provincial level and federal level. There is a role to play by all.
I think the approach should first be an environmental protection one, on a global scale. This would involve the custodial management you mentioned as well as a ban on distructive fishing methods. Those big ones have to happen at the federal level. On a local community level there has to be the support to back these drastic changes.
Outport and rural Newfoundland and Labrador have to be a first consideration but we can't allow a resource to be offered up for destruction. Outport N&L would have survived forever with the small boat fisheries - we need a return to that I agree.
Our government system does not allow for to fishery to repair itself. The government doesn't care about the fishery, it cares about votes, so they can stay in office. That's what it is all about, staying in office. They spread promises about the rosy future and then toss in millions of taxpayer dollars into their new initiatives that is supposed to make things better. Control of the fishery ultimately must be placed in the owners of this resource, the fishermen who rely on it. They will know how to handle it, not some bureaucrat in St. John's or Ottawa.
Post a Comment