Guest Post by the Fishery Community Alliance
Rising to the FISH Challenge?
Preface
During Election of 2015, the Fishery Community
Alliance (FCA) was asked to provide the then Liberal Opposition Leader with a
guide to develop a fisheries policy should the Party be elected to govern the
Province. This document was followed up
with a number of meetings with Dwight Ball at his request, so he could be
better prepared to tackle the fishery file.
Following his election in November 2015, the Premier and his MHAs not only ignored the document and its recommendations, but avoided any reference to the state of our fishery and the fact the Province lost 30,000 jobs and thousands of people since the 1992 Moratorium.
In fact, no effort, whatsoever, has been made to rebuild the fishery by the Federal Government, who is responsible for it management, since Clyde Wells was Premier over 30 years ago.
