Volunteer Snapshot: A Week in the Life

Our Union’s extensive network of volunteers devote thousands of hours each year to improving the fishing industry by offering their time and expertise. Their work is critical to advancing the goals of our Union.

There are 30 elected seats on the FFAW’s Inshore Council, as well as 7 Inshore Executive Board positions, representing a variety of geographic, fleet and demographic sectors in the fishery. At the local level there are dozens of fleet committees representing various fleets, in different regions that comprise hundreds of individuals around the province.

Each fleet committee consists of numerous democratically elected harvesters that are responsible for addressing specific concerns of the fleet, keeping the fleet informed as to price and quota information, and representing the fleet at the negotiating table.

Hundreds of volunteers give up their time to travel to and participate in meetings, advisories and negotiations. Without them, our union would cease to exist as we know it. To put this into perspective, this week alone the following meetings took place: