Herring Charity Sale Two herring charity sales are taking place this Saturday in Steveston and James Bay. In Steveston, The 12th annual herring sale, organized by the charity Fishermen Helping Kids with Cancer, will take place at the Harbour Authority on Trites Road...
Dear UFAWU Members, 2022 has been a challenging year for commercial fish harvesters. With salmon and herring fisheries seeing even further reductions of access, increased uncertainty on the impending MPA closures in the Northern Shelf Bioregion, and the alarming...
This week, the Minister provided DFO Herring Managers with direction for the 2022-2023 Herring IFMP which includes the following: Prince Rupert: 5% harvest rate which results in a total TAC of 1,786 tons. Allocations in PRD are 600 tons for FSC, 1,000 tons for SOK,...
Yesterday, UFAWU-Unifor learned the disheartening details of the Pacific Salmon Commercial Licence Retirement Program following a Fisheries and Oceans Canada announcement. The announcement outlined a reverse auction system that will see harvesters competing to sell...
