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Call Update on Crab May 2

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Call Update on Crab May 2
May 2, 2023

The Inshore Council and Crab Chairs held a call this evening to review today’s events. Urner Barry held strong today for fresh gulf crab, and harvesters are determined to hold strong for their fair share of the market price. The overwhelming majority of regions and fleets remain firm that the price of 2.20 per pound remains unviable for their enterprises and a fishery will not proceed.

Leadership continues to call for the provincial government to intervene as the regulators responsible for processing companies. The price setting process is broken, and Minister Bragg is refusing to acknowledge the catastrophic flaws that are being felt deeply by harvesters and plant workers this season.

FFAW-Unifor continues to lobby for a snow crab formula that would transparently set the prices paid to harvesters based on actual market, yield and sales information.

Click here for the Union’s response to ASP earlier today. 

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Dr. Erin Carruthers

Dr. Erin Carruthers is the Science Director and Senior Fisheries Scientist with the Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union (FFAW-Unifor), which is the labour union that represents the owner-operator fleet in Newfoundland and Labrador. The FFAW is committed to research and management that supports healthy oceans, fisheries, and coastal communities. Dr. Carruthers received her Ph. D. in Biology from Memorial University in 2011 followed by a postdoctoral fellowship with the Centre for Fisheries Ecosystems Research. Before coming to Newfoundland, Erin worked as a Research Biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada at the St. Andrews Biological Station. Her current research program is co-constructed with fish harvesters and includes research on coastal fishing communities, collaborative longline and trap surveys, and best practices for the avoidance, handling and release of unwanted catch.