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Casting A Safety Net: Exploring Basic Income for Fisheries
During the 4th World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress in St. John’s, one panel explored the promise—and pitfalls—of a basic income for fishers.
Abby Cole
June 23, 2022
# fisheries
Seasplainer
Who Decides the Price of Fish at the Wharf?
The Standing Fish Pricing Panel is meant to provide stability. But volatile markets—and powerful processors—mean fish harvesters often lose out.
Jenn Thornhill Verma
May 31, 2022
Analysis
Is Corporate Concentration the Future of Fish Processing?
Government's only vision is to either increase corporate concentration (foreign ownership or otherwise) or see more plant closures, divestment, and decline.
Jenn Thornhill Verma and Jack Daly
December 18, 2020
Analysis
Investigation
Longread
Who Controls Fish Processing in Newfoundland & Labrador?
Is corporate concentration a central part of the province’s long-term strategy for the fishery? How does that benefit Newfoundlanders and Labradorians?
Jenn Thornhill Verma and Jack Daly
November 20, 2020
News
Smallest Fish Nets Biggest Share of Profits
Capelin sold for higher prices in the marketplace this year—despite record low quotas hauled to shore by the province's saltwater cowboys and girls.
Tera Camus
November 10, 2020
Analysis
COMMENTARY: How and Why We Fish (Part 1)
Blinded By The Numbers? Implementing the Modernized Fisheries Act Goes Beyond Acting On What Stock Science Tells Us.
Jenn Thornhill Verma and Dean Bavington
April 7, 2020
To Each Their Own
Fishers need dialogue, not explanations
Scientists don't need to do a better job of explaining themselves to fishers -- they need to do a better job of listening to them.
Rhea Rollmann
April 24, 2017
To Each Their Own
No, Margaret Wente, all is not forgiven
Margaret Wente says a recent trip to Fogo Island changed her view of Newfoundland. No, it hasn't.
Rhea Rollmann
September 25, 2016
Letters
Dear people of Newfoundland and Labrador…
"I’ve seen many blue and red governments come and go, taking turns at the reins, going around in the same cycles of boom and bust,…
TheIndependent.ca
April 22, 2016
Uncategorized
The missing election issue: Free Trade’s assault on jobs
Looking at the election platforms of our three major parties, it becomes clear there are issues that the politicians don’t want to talk about. Unfortunately,…
Marilyn Reid
September 24, 2015
News
Big Brother is watching — but why? And should we care?
Revelations of federal government surveillance of protests and public lectures may hint at the Harper government's sense of "vulnerability”, says MUN grad student
Justin Brake
October 4, 2014
Cutting through the spin on CETA
CETA “not about trade”
In the first of this 5-part series: What the North American Free Trade Agreement has taught us, and the implications of another treaty based on…
Marilyn Reid
February 17, 2014
Uncategorized
CETA trade deal trades us away
Guest columnist Jonathan Parsons says Globalisation is set to make further inroads in Newfoundland and Labrador under the Canadian European Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement.
Jon Parsons
September 13, 2012
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