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Crab fishermen vote to end strike

The Newfoundland/Labrador crab fishermen’s strike is over and as of May 20, boats were heading out to sea. In their vote, however, the fishermen made it clear that they will not accept the production quota system laid down by provincial Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Trevor Taylor. Approximately 4,600 fishermen voted 73.6 percent to go fishing

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Newfoundland crabbers strike over production quotas

Newfoundland fishermen’s anger at the provincial government’s decision to change the crab production quota system has resulted in a strike, demonstrations and a one-day blockade of oil tankers trying to enter Placentia Bay. Early in March, provincial Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Trevor Taylor announced a new raw material shares (RMS) system for the crab fishery

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Famed Nova Scotia Shipyard to close

A significant chapter of Canada’s seafaring history ended in March with the announcement that the Smith & Rhuland shipyard in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, will close. The yard was most famous for building the legendary fishing schooner BLUENOSE, which dominated American competition at the International Fishermen’s Races held during the 1920s. The yard also built the

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Quota plan angers Newfoundland crabbers

Newfoundland/Labrador crab fishermen are at loggerheads with provincial Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Trevor Taylor over a raw material shares (RMS) system for the crab fishery that’s being tried on a two-year pilot basis. Saying that the outlook for the 2005 crab fishery is “weak,” Taylor said he was taking the step “to act in the

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Canadian fishermen worried about new safety rules

Transport Canada has announced plans to update the Canada Shipping Act to “promote the safety and economic performance of the marine industry,” including fishing vessels. But fishermen all across Atlantic Canada maintain that the new provisions are short on common sense and long on cost — to the fishermen. The update includes “improvements to provisions

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Tool

Bantam Books 274 pp, $22.00 ($30.00 Canadian) Eastport’s Tiptree is on the case again It’s some measure of Sarah Graves’s pace that only a few pages into Tool & Die, along with Eastport sleuth Jacobia Tiptree, we find ourselves in Lubec confronting a dead man. And we quickly learn that his death was caused by

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