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LIF IFO SHOULD IT IT BE CONTINUED, MODIFIED OR ABOLISHED??? Submitted to: Ministerial Advisory Panel (MAP) Paul Sprout (Chair) Barbara Crann Wayne Follett Trevor Taylor Submitted by: Fogo Island Cooperative Society Limited May 24 th ,
Submitted to: Ministerial Advisory Panel (MAP) Paul Sprout (Chair) Barbara Crann Wayne Follett Trevor Taylor Submitted by: Fogo Island Cooperative Society Limited May 24th, 2016, St. John’s May 26th, 2016, Gander
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DISSAPPEARING SHELLFISH… RETURN OF GROUNDFISH…
COD TURBOT SHRIMP
4,000,000.00 6,000,000.00 8,000,000.00 10,000,000.00 12,000,000.00 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 COD CAPELIN HERRING TURBOT SEA CUC CRAB SHRIMP
FOGO ISLAND CO-OP - LANDINGS BY SPECIE OVER 15 YEARS
OUR BUSINESS REVOLVES AROUND SHRIMP. IT MAKES UP 65% OF OUR BUSINESS MODEL, REPLACING CRAB IN RECENT YEARS. HAVING LESS SHRIMP THEN WHAT WE HAVE NOW MAKES US UNVIABLE. IN 2009 THE CO-OP PROCESSED OVER 11 Million LBS OF SHRIMP, LAST YEAR WE DID 5.5 MILLION LBS. DECLINES IN QUOTAS TO FISHERS HAVE BEEN DEVISTATING… IN 2009 A FULL-TIME CRAB LICENSE HAD A QUOTA OF 223,000 LBS, NOW ITS 71,000 LBS A DECLINE OF 68%. A SHRIMP LICENSE HAD 490,000 LBS OF QUOTA, TODAY ITS 246,000 LBS A DECREASE OF 51%. COD IS MAKING ITS RETURN ONCE AGAIN TO OUR WATERS BUT WE FACE A DAUNTING
PROCESS TO EVEN CONTEMPLATE A MAJOR MARKETING CAMPAIGN AND IT WOULD NEVER REPLACE CRAB AND SHRIMP AS THE MAINSTAY OF OUR BUSINESS SO WE HAVE NOTHING TO TURN TO IN ORDER TO SURIVE ON AS WE TRANSITION BACK TO GROUNDFISH.
* TH THE FIS FISHERY IS IS A COMMON PROPERTY RE RESOURCE TO BE MANAGED FOR TH THE BENEFIT OF F ALL CANAIDIANS WHILE RE RESPECTING ABORIGIANAL & TR TREATY RI RIGHTS. * THE MIN INISTER HAS AUTHORITY OVER ACCESS & ALLOCATION OF THE RE RESOURCE.
The Government of Canada recognizes that hundreds of coastal communities depend on the Atlantic fisheries and that the fisheries make an important contribution to the country's national identity and prosperity. Key legislation brought into effect land claims agreements including the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act and Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act and the Nunavik Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act. These Agreements are important elements of access and allocation and affect management decisions in the northern shrimp fishery. Guiding Principles: Conservation Recognition of Aboriginal & Treaty Rights Equity Criteria Adjacency Historic Dependence Economic Viability
PRINCIPLES:
Conservation Sustainable use that safeguards ecological processes and genetic diversity for the present and future generations. If the principle of conservation will be compromised, access will not be granted. Recognition of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights Access to the resource will be managed in a manner consistent with the Constitutional protection provided to Aboriginal and treaty rights. Equity Equity has both a procedural and a substantive component: Procedural Component: Access criteria must be applied in a fair and consistent manner through a decision-making process that is open, transparent and accountable and that ensures fair treatment for all. Substantive Component: The fishery is a common, public resource that should be managed in a way that does not create or exacerbate excessive interpersonal or inter- regional disparities.
PRINCIPLES:
Criteria Definition Adjacency Priority of access should be granted to those who are closest to the fishery resource in question. The adjacency criterion is based on the explicit premise that those coastal fishing communities and fishers in closest proximity to a given fishery should gain the greatest benefit from it, and on the implicit assumption that access based on adjacency will promote values of local stewardship and local economic development. Historic Dependence Priority of access should be granted to fishers who have historically participated in and relied upon a particular fishery, including those who developed the fishery. Depending on the nature and history of the fishery, the requisite period of dependence can vary from a few years to many decades. The historic dependence criterion is based on the premise that fishers who have historically fished a particular stock should enjoy privileged access to that resource, to ensure their continued economic stability and viability, as well as that of the coastal communities from which they come. Economic Viability Decisions regarding access promote, rather than compromise, the economic viability of existing participants in a particular fishery, as well as that of potential new entrants to that fishery. The economic viability criterion is based on the premise that decisions regarding access should contribute to the economic resiliency and stability
viability focuses on factors such as capacity to fish, ability to comply with last-in-first-out rules and sound business planning. At a broader level, economic viability looks to factors such as relative economic return and value-added to the fishery, as well as at stability of employment in the processing sector and economic benefits to dependent coastal communities.
OVER TH THE PAST SE SEVERAL DE DECADES WE HAVE SE SEEN TH THE CLOSURE OF F MANY FIS FISH PLA LANTS AROUND NEWFOUNDLAND AND IN IN TH THE AFT FTERMATH WE HAVE BEEN LE LEFT WIT ITH DE DEVISTATION IN ONCE VIBRANT FISHING COMMUNITIES… DEVISTATION TO THE DEGREE THAT TODAY SOME ARE JU JUST A FR FRACTION OR SH SHADOW OF IT ITS ONCE SE
RE LOSING OUR CULTURE, OUR HERITAGE, OUR WAY OF F LIF LIFE, OUR IDE IDENTITY. SO SOME OF F TH THIS IS MIG IGHT HAVE BEEN PRE REVENTED HAD WE OF F HAD A BETTER VIS ISION FOR OUR
90’S AND ALTHOUGH WE CAN ALL SHARE THE BLAME FOR IT‘S DEMISE, ITS IRONIC THAT WE NOW FACE TH THE SAME TH THING ALL OVER AGAIN, TH THIS TIM TIME WITH SH
F LI LIFE IS IS TH THREATEN ONCE MORE BECAUSE WE ARE BEING IG IGNORED BY POLICY AND DE DECISION MAKERS IN IN OTTAWA. MORE PLA LANTS IN IN NEWFOUNDLAND WILL CLOSE AND COMMUNITIES WILL CEASE TO EXI XIST IF IF DF DFO MAINTAINS IT ITS CURRENT POLICIES. URB RBAN HUBS LIK LIKE GA GANDER, GR GRAND FALLS, CORNER BROOK AND CLA LARNVILLE WILL EVENTUALLY BE IM
THE TOWN OF F GA GANDER HAS RE REPORTED TH THAT 80 80% OF F IT ITS BUSI SINESS COMES FR FROM RU RURAL NEWFOUNDLAND COMMUNITIES IN IN TH THE IM IMMEDIATE RE REGION.
THE HE PROBL BLEMS: OFF OUR SH SHORES, THE HE INS INSHORE RESO SOURCES OF CRAB & SH SHRIMP ARE SH SHRINKING FAST. WE HA HAVE COME TO RELY Y ON THE HESE SH SHELLFISH SP SPECIES AND THE HEY HA HAVE SU SUSTAINED US S FOR THE HE PAST 25 YE YEARS SIN SINCE THE HE COLL LLAPSE OF COD STOCKS. WE ARE WORRIED THA HAT AFTER ALL LL OUR IN INVESTMENTS IN IN THE HESE FIS ISHERIES BO BOTH ON SH SHORE AND ON THE HE WATER THA HAT WE WIL ILL HA HAVE NOTHING TO TURN TO AND OUR RURAL COMMUNITIES W WIL ILL BE BE NO MORE.
CAUSES OUT T OF F OUR CONTROL:
1.
CLIMATE CHA CHANGE - WHIC ICH IS IS CA CAUS USING WARMING WATE TER TEMPERATURES. TH THIS IS IS RE RESULTIN ING IN IN AN EARLIER THAN NORMAL PH PHYTOPLANKTON BL BLOOM WHICH HA HAVE AN IM IMPACT CT ON ON IM IMATURE SH SHELLFISH SPE SPECIES SU SURVIVAL. 2.
RECRUITM TMENT PR PROBLEMS - WE E ARE RE FIN FINDING FEW FEWER AND D FEW FEWER BABY Y SH SHELLFISH IN IN SCIE SCIENCE SU SURVEYS. 3.
REGIME SH SHIFT – WE E ARE RE TRANSIS ISTIONING BACK TO GR GROUNDFISH FR FROM SH SHELLFISH MAKING IT IT FAVORABLE FOR TRADITIONAL FIN FIN FIS FISH SPE SPECI CIES LI LIKE COD AND D TURBOT AND MAKING IT IT UN UNFAVORABLE FOR SHE SHELLFISH SPE SPECI CIES OF OF CRA CRAB AND D SH SHRIMP. . SM SMALL FIN FINFISH SPE SPECIES ARE RE FE FEEDING ON ON SH SHELLFISH.
CAUSES WIT ITHIN OUR CONTROL:
1.
LIFO PO POLIC ICY - SH SHRIMP ACC CCOUNTS FOR 65% 65% OF OF OU OUR BU BUSI SINESS MODEL AND D IF IF LI LIFO IS IS TO CONTINUE IT IT WILL ILL BANKRUPT FIS FISHIN ING EN ENTE TERPRIZES AND D PR PROCESSIN ING COMPANIES AND D EV EVENTUALLY DE DESTROY COMMUNITIES
MAINTAINING A HEALTHY ECOSYSTEM IS PARAMOUNT
An ecosystem is defined as a geographically specified system of organisms (including humans), the environment, and the processes that control its dynamics. Ecosystems are both complex and continuously changing. Humans and human institutions, beliefs and practices are integral parts of the ecosystem. Fish harvesters meet an important societal need by providing food from the sea. The ecosystems that produce seafood must be cared for both because of their intrinsic importance and to ensure this sustainable source of food is available for future generations. Moreover, the fisheries are complex and entwined with both the economic and cultural life of fishing communities. THE INSHORE RECOGNIZES AND SUPPORTS A HEALTHY ECOSYSTEM
CURRENT FISHERY TIMELINES AREA 6, 3k
THE BEST FISHERY FOR A SUSTAINABLE FISHERY THAT PROTECTS ECOSYSTEMS IS A SMALL SCALE MULTI SPECIE SEASONAL INSHORE FISHERY.
AREA 6 \ 3K JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC OFFSHORE (SHRIMP) INSHORE (SHRIMP) INSHORE (CRAB) INSHORE (TURBOT) OFFSHORE (TURBOT) INSHORE (COD) INSHORE (HERRING) INSHORE (CAPELIN)
PROTECTING ECOSYSTEMS, PROTECTING FISHERIES, PROTECTING COMMUNITIES
Empowering coastal communities to manage their resources and ensure smarter co-management of our
SFA 6 IS THE ONLY SHRIMP AREA WITH YEAR ROUND FISHING ACTIVITY. WE NEED TO ABOLISH LIFO, REMOVE THE OFFSHORE FROM AREA 6, AND GRANT EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO THE INSHORE. THIS IS THE BEST ANSWER FOR A SUSTAINABLE FISHERY. THE INSHORE FISHERY WILL BE ACTIVE FROM MAY TO OCT FOR 6 MONTHS. THERE WILL BE QUIET TIME FOR THE OTHER 6 MONTHS DURING WINTER. THE AREA HAS A CHANCE TO BREATH NEW LIFE BACK INTO THE ECOSYSTEM WE BECOME AN
EXPERIMENT..
AREA 6 \ 3K JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC INSHORE (SHRIMP) INSHORE (CRAB) INSHORE (TURBOT) INSHORE (COD) INSHORE (HERRING) INSHORE (CAPELIN)
PROPOSED FISHERY TIMELINES AREA 6, 3k
THE IMPORTANCE OF ABORIGINAL \ INDIGENOUS PEOPLE THEIR RIGHTS & THEIR LAND CLAIMS AGREEMENTS
WE RECOGNIZE AND RESPECT THE IMPORTANCE OF ABORIGINAL PEOPLE AND THEIR LAND CLAIMS AGREEMENTS. MOST OF THEIR QUOTAS OR ALLOCATIONS ARE CAUGHT BY OFFSHORE COMPANIES AND THE ROYALITIES GO TO THE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE TO SUSTAIN THEIR COMMUNITIES. THE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE ARE PROTECTED BY THEIR LAND CLAIMS AGREEMENTS AND THE OFFSHORE SECTOR IS PARTIALLY PROTECTED BY THE ABORIGINAL QUOTAS AND A FLAWED LIFO POLICY. FUTURE ACCESS TO ANY FISH RESOURCES FOR ABORIGINAL PEOPLE MEANS FUTURE ACCESS TO OFFSHORE COMPANIES. WE ARE CURRENTLY THIRD IN LINE FOR THE RESOURCES. WE FEEL THAT THE INSHORE SECTOR BECAUSE OF TRADITIONAL TIES AND ADJACENCY SHOULD BE SECOND IN LINE BEHIND ABORIGINAL GROUPS. OUR GOVERNMENT FORGOT US AT OUR MOST VUNERABLE TIME… WHEN OUR GROUNDFISH RESOURCES WERE COLLAPSING AROUND US AND SHRIMP RESOURCES WERE INCREASING. THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE RECOGNIZED THE INSHORE SECTOR AND ALLOWED US EARLIER ACCESS TO THE RESOURCE. THIS HAS CAUSED US TO BE IN THE VUNERABLE POSITION WE ARE IN TODAY. Note: Fogo Island Co-op had an offshore allocation of 100 mt THERE ARE NO ABORIGINAL QUOTAS IN AREA 6. THERE IS A SPECIAL ALLOCATION TO SABRI WHICH IS CAUGHT BY THE
AGREEMENTS.
FROM HOME OFTEN IN EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS. MY BROTHER WAS CAPTAIN FOR MANY YEARS WITH FPI AND I SPENT 4 SUMMERS AND 1 WINTER ON SIDE TRAWLERS MYSELF DURING THIS TIME EARNING ENOUGH MONEY TO ADVANCE MY EDUCATION. I KNOW FIRST HAND HOW HARD THIS WORK IS. BUT I ALSO KNOW FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCES AND THEN LATER TAKING A POSITION WITHIN THE COMPANY IN FISH PLANTS AROUND THIS ISLAND JUST HOW MUCH DAMAGE WE DID TO OUR FISHERY. IN THE LATE 70’S TO THE EARLY 90’S WE WREAKED HAVOC UPON GROUNDFISH STOCKS. LARGE OFFSHORE TRAWLERS, MOSTLY STERN TRAWLERS DESIMATED COD STOCKS ON THE GRAND BANKS AND THE NORTHERN COD STOCKS IN 2j & 3k DRIVING THEM TO NEAR EXTINCTION. THE INSHORE CAN ALSO SHARE SOME OF THE BLAME OR CAN WE? THE INSHORE FISHERY RELIED UPON THE MIGRATION OF THESE TWO COD STOCKS WHICH FLOODED TO OUR SHORES IN THE SUMMER MONTHS… BUT IN THE LATE 80’S AND EARLY 90’S IT SLOWED AND THEN STOPPED. THE FISH HAD BEEN WIPED OUT AND ALONG WITH OUR INSHORE FISHERY.
ONCE VIBRANT TOWNS THAT DEPENDED UPON COD WERE ABONDONED BY THEIR ONE AND ONLY
FERMEUSE, CATALINA, CHARLESTON, BURGEO, PORT AUX BASQUES, RAMEA, GAULTOIS, GRAND BANK, FORTUNE, MARYSTOWN, BURIN, HARBOUR BRETON YEAR ROUND PLANTS THST DEPENDED UPON COD AND FLATFISH SPECIES SUPPLIED BY THESE LARGE TRAWLERS) IF LIFO IS ALLOWED TO CONTINUE WE WILL BE DOING THE SAME ALL OVER AGAIN WITH ANOTHER LIST OF SHRIMP PLANTS IN THE FOLLOWING COMMUNITIES. (FOGO ISLAND, PORT AUX CHOIX, ANCHOR POINT, ST. ANTHONY, CLARENVILLE, BLACK DUCK COVE, TWILLINGATE, OLD PERLICAN AND BAY DE VERDE) WILL ALL SHUT DOWN.
THE PRICE FOR MISMANAGED FISHERIES? DO WE REALLY EXPECT THE INSHORE TO PAY THE PRICE AGAIN?
AROUND THE GLOBE. THEY ARE FISHING DOWN THE FOOD WEB AND MORE AND MORE PREDITORY SPECIES ARE CHASING SMALLER FISH CLOSER TO INSHORE WATERS BECAUSE THEY ARE STARVED. THESE SPECIES ARE PREYING ON INLAND WATER SPECIES IN OUR ECOSYSTEM. LARGER OFFSHORE VESSELS ARE CHASING FISH TO INSHORE WATERS
GRID IN THE SHRIMP FISHERY) HAVE BEEN MADE TO PROTECT OTHER SPECIES WHILE TARGETING A SPECIFIC SPECIES THERE IS STILL MUCH TO BE DONE. YEAR ROUND FISHING NEAR COASTAL COMMUNITIES SHOULD BE STOPPED, IT IS NOT GOOD FOR THE FISHERY OR THE ECOSYSTEM AS TOO MUCH PRESSURE AND STRESS IS EXERTED ON FISH SPECIES THREATENING THEIR SURVIVAL.
DISTINCTIVE FISHERIES. THE OFFSHORE SECTOR IS A COOKED SHELL ON PRODUCT, THE INSHORE IS A COOKED, SHELL OFF PRODUCT. THERE IS A NEED FOR BOTH SECTORS AS CONSIDERABLE TIME AND MONEY HAS BEEN CONSUMED DEVELOPING EACH MARKET. IF LIFO IS MAINTAINED THE INSHORE MARKETS WILL BE WIPED OUT COMPLETELY. THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN. WE SAW THE SAME THING HAPPEN WITH COD AS WE NOW STRUGGLE TO FIND NEW MARKETS AS IT RETURNS.
OFFSHORE COMPANIES ARE OWNED BY FOREIGN INTERESTS.
ENOUGH TO ENSURE THEY CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN GOOD INCOMES FOR CREWS AND GOOD EARNING POTENTIAL FOR THE COMPANIES THAT EMPLOY THESE CREWS. THE STOCKS NORTH OF 6 ARE HEALTHY, THE FISHERY IS HEALTHY, THEY DON’T CATCH SHRIMP IN THE MOST NORTHERLY AREAS THAT THEY WOULD IF THY WERE REMOVED FROM 6. THEY CAN BE VIABLE FOR YEARS TO
THEIR FUTURE, THE INSHORE SECTOR CANNOT.
NAFO 20 2015 15 FOREIGN TACS – TAKEN INS INSIDE & OUTSIDE TH THE 20 200 0 MILE ILE LIM LIMIT
3M COD DENMARK – 3083 T EU – 7867 T NORWAY – 1276 T CANADA – 110 T 3LMNO TURBOT JAPAN – 1183 T EU – 6768 T RUSSIA – 1473 T CANADA – 1731 T
AS A FOOTNOTE: HOW DOES THESE ALLOCATIONS TO FOREIGN FLEETS AFFECT THE CETA DEAL? CANADA’S INTERESTS FOR OFFSHORE FLEETS?
OUR ROOTS RUN DEEP… HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO OUR ANCESTORS LEFT EUROPE FOR A BE BETTER WAY OF LIF
HEY MIGR IGRATED ACR CROSS THE HE ATLA LANTIC AND SETTELD IN IN THE HE INL INLETS AND BAYS ON THE HE SHO HORES OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LA LABRADOR. THE HEY ENDURED HA HARDSHIPS WE COULD NEVER POSSIBLY IM
HEY CA CAME FOR COD AS IT IT WAS TOLD TO THE HEM WAS TEEMING IN IN THE HESE WATERS. THE HEY LA LAID DO DOWN ROOTS… DEEP ROOTS. THIS NEW FISHERY WOULD BECOME THEIR LIFELINE. GENERATION AFTER GENERATION, WAVE AFTER WAVE, THE HEY CA CAME FROM ENGLAND, IRELAND, FRANCE… IT WAS A HARD LIFE BUT THEY STAYED, ENDURED AND SURVIVED… IT WAS HOME. THEY TRADED WITH NATIVES… BEOTHUK, FEUDED WITH THEM AND FISHED THE SAME WATERS AS THE HEM, EVENTUALLY FORGING NEW CU CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, SOME MARRYING WIT ITHIN NATIVE POPULATIONS IN INHERITING A NEW WAY OF LIF LIFE. WE THE HE INS INSHORE SECTOR BE BELIEVE THA HAT NEWFOUNDLAND WAS BU BUILT ON THE HE BACKS… ON THE BLOOD, TOIL, SWEAT AND TEARS OF MEN AND WOMEN IN RURAL SETTLEMENTS OF NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR… IN THE COD FISHERY, PASSED DO DOWN FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE HE NEXT A AND AS THE HE CLI CLIMATE CH CHANGED, ECOSYSTEMS CH CHANGED TO FAVOR SHE
HE INS INSHORE IN INHERITED THOSE RIGHTS. THE SEA DON’T CHANGE, OUR FISHING GROUNDS DON’T CHANGE, JU JUST THE HE SPECIES WIT ITHIN IT
HAVE THE HE RIG IGHT TO FIS ISH WHATEVER SPECIE ARE IN IN THE HE WATERS THA HAT OUR COD ONCE FLOURSHED IN.
IF IT IT SWIMS, CR CRAWLS, CR CREEPS OR FLIE LIES IN IN THE HE WATERS ADJACENT OFF NEWFOUNDLAND SHO HORES THE HEN WE HA HAVE A RIG IGHT TO FIS ISH IT IT. . THE HE OFFSHORE BE BELIEVE THE HEY WERE THE HE PIO IONEERS IN IN THE HE SHR HRIMP IN INDUSTRY Y AND THI HIS IS IS RECOGNIZED IN IN THE HEIR PROTECT CTION IN IN THE HE IF IFMP BY Y THE HE LIF LIFO POLI
BE BELIEVE THE HE ARGUMENT ABO BOVE SUPERSEEDS THIS BE BELIEF.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF OUR ANCESTORS
<1400’s 1500’s 1600’s -1800’S 1800 – 1960 1960 – 1970 1970 – 1980 1980 – PRESENT ABORIGINAL GROUPS EARLY EXPLORERS EARLY SETTLERS RURAL NEWFOUNDLAND COMMUNITIES DEPENDING ON COD FISHERY OFFSHORE FACTORY FREEZERS
THIS TIMELINE TELLS THE STORY OF OUR HUMBLE BEGINNINGS. BY THE LATE 1960’S MANY FOREIGN FACTORY FREEZER VESSELS ARRIVED ON THE GRAND BANKS TO FISH FOR COD. CANADIAN FACTORY FREEZERS STARTED FISHING IN THE LATE 70’S, 80’S AND 90’S MOSTLY ON SHRIMP… THE COD STOCKS TOTALLY COLLAPSED IN THE EARLY 90’S. UP TO THE COLLAPSE OF COD ALL FISH CAUGHT IN NEWFOUNDLAND WATERS WERE PROCESSED IN NEWFOUNDLAND FISH PLANTS.
AND ARE NON DUSTRUCTIVE TO THE ENVIRONMENT. ON FOGO ISLAND WE ARE MOVING AWAY FROM GILLNETS TO COD POTS AND HAND LINES IN OUR COD FISHERY, WE ARE EXPLORING TURBOT POTS. WE HAVE BEEN USING CRAB POTS FOR YEARS AND WE ALSO USE THE NORDMORE GRID IN OUR SHRIMP FISHERY.
EMBRACE THE CHALLENGE IN FRONT OF US. AREA 6 SHOULD BE USED AS AN EXPERIMENT. IF THE OFFSHORE IS REMOVED FROM AREA 6 AND WE IMPOSE A SMALL SCALE MULTI SPECIE SEASONAL INSHORE FISHERY FROM MAY TO OCTOBER FOR THE NEXT 3 TO 5 YEARS THEN WE MAY HAVE A CHANCE TO REBUILD NOT ONLY OUR SHRIMP FISHERY BUT IN THE PROCESS MAYBE OUR CRAB FISHERY AS WELL. THE AREA WILL HAVE SOME QUIET TIME, 6 MONTHS TO RECOVER. TARGETING DIFFERENT SPECIES AT DIFFERENT TIMES DURING THIS CYCLE WILL REDUCE STRESS ON OTHER NON TARGETED SPECIES.
EARLY 70’S AND WHILE ITS HAD ITS OWN CHALLENGES THE FISHERY STILL SURVIVES YEAR AFTER YEAR. ITS IN A HEALTHY STATE. WHILE WE RCOGNIZE IT’S A SMALL FISHERY IN RELATION TO THE OTHER AREAS OF THE NORTHERN SHRIMP FISHERY, IN COMPARISOM IT PROVIDES FOR A SIMILAR PERECNTAGE OF FISHERS THAT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO REPLINISH ITS STOCKS TO MAINTAIN A FISHERY FOR COMMUNITIES AND FISHERS IN THE AREA. I BELIEVE THERE IS A NUMBER OF FACTORS… IT’S A SMALL SCALE FISHERY WITH NO OFFSHORE INTERESTS. IT HAS LIMITED ACTIVITY AND CONSIDERABLE DOWNTIME TO ALLOW FOR REPLINISHMENT OF THE STOCKS.
FACE AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS HAVE BEEN INVESTED IN FISHING ENTERPRIZES, BUYING UP OF LICENSES. ON FOGO ISLAND WE HAVE SPENT OVER THE PAST EIGHT YEARS 6 MILLION DOLARS ON OUR SHRIMP PLANT IN SELDOM. BOTH OUR HARVESTING CAPABILIITIES AND PROCESSING CAPABILITIES GO HAND IN HAND, WE DEPEND UPON EACH OTHER.
AND ITS 11 COMMUNITIUES. ITS AT THE VERY CORE OF WHAT KEEPS US HERE. TAKE AWAY THAT AND YOU TAKE AWAY OUR EVERYTHING.
EVERYTHING…
rural communities is possible; that the inherent value of rural places can be reclaimed and made relevant for the 21st century; that losing our rural communities and the human ways of knowing they contain is neither inevitable or necessary.
WE SIT SIT ON ON ON ONE OF OF TH THE RICHEST FIS FISHING RESOURCES IN IN TH THE NORTH ATLANTIC – FIS FISHING AR AREAS 3K 3K \ AREA 6… THAT HAVE PROVIDED GE GENERATIONS OF OF FIS FISHERS AN AND PLA PLANT WORKERS A A LIVELYHOOD AN AND SU SUSTAINED COMMUNITIES FOR OVER FIV FIVE HU HUNDRED YEARS… WE HA HAVE NOT BE BEEN KIN IND TO O OU OUR PR PROVIDER TH THESE ON ONCE LUCRATIVE FIS FISHING AR AREAS HA HAVE BE BEEN AB ABUSED, , OVERFISHED AN AND MIS ISMANAGED. . COD DIS DISAPPEARED AN AND NOW CR CRAB AN AND SH SHRIM IMP AR ARE DIS
SPECIES THAT EXIST IN THESE WATERS ARE THREATEN… AN AND SO SO IS IS A A WAY OF OF LIF IFE FOR TH THOSE LEFT WHO DE DEPEND UP UPON IT IT. . WIT ITH A A WELL MANAGED FIS FISHERY WE CA CAN SU
FIND TH THE RIG IGHT FIX.
INSHORE) BE BELIE IEVE TH THE RIG IGHT FIX FIX IS IS TO AB ABOLISH LIF IFO, , REMOVE TH THE OF OFFSHORE FR FROM AR AREA 6 6 AN AND GR GRANT EXCLUSIVE ACCESS, AN AND SH SHARED MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES OF OF AR AREA 6 6 TO TH THE INS INSHORE WITH ITH DF DFO. . HA HAVING DO DONE TH THIS WE WILL ILL BE BE SU SUBJECTED TO TH THE BE BEST PO POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY FOR A SUSTAINABLE FISHERY… A SM SMALL SC SCALE MULTI SP SPECIE SE SEASONAL INS INSHORE FIS
ARE NOT AS ASKING FOR TH THE WORLD JUS UST AR AREA 6.
THE OF OFFSHORE HA HAVE AN AN AB ABUNDANCE OF OF SH SHRIMP TO REMAIN VI VIABLE IN IN MORE NORTHERNLY AR AREAS AB ABOVE 6 6
AREA 6 - SHRIMP AREA 3K - CRAB
67.7 m, 222 FT 17.6 m, 58 FT THERE ARE FOUR DIVISIONS OF FISHERIES IN NEWFOUNDLAND: INSHORE (0-34.11”) MIDSHORE (35-64.11”) NEARSHORE (65-99.11”) OFFSHORE (> 100”) OTHER THAN THE LENGTH OF THE VESSEL THERE IS NO OTHER CRITERIA TO DESCRIBE THESE FISHERY DIVISIONS… FOR EXAMPLE WHAT IS THE DEFINATION OF AN OFFSHORE FISHERY… A FACTORY FREEZER TRAWLER? MY DEFINITION OF A FACTORY FREEZER TRAWLER IS… A VESSEL DESIGNED TO TRAVEL LONG DISTANCES OR TO AREAS INCAPABLE OF BEING FISHED BY INSHORE FLEETS (IN MORE NORTHERNLY ICED LAIDEN WATERS), STAY AT SEA FOR EXTEND PERIODS OF TIME, PROCESS & FREEZE ON BOARD, LAND BACK TO PORT AND SELL DIRECT TO MARKETS. WHAT ARE THEY DOING 50 MILES OFF OUR SHORE FISHING NEAR OUR INSHORE FLEETS? HOW DID OUR FISHERY GET TO THIS POINT? WE NEED A BROADER DEFINATION OF ALL OUR FISHERY DIVISIONS NOT JUST SIMPLY BOAT SIZE.
Marine Traffic App - OFFSHORE VESSELS FISHING 50 MILES OFF OUR SHORES
LIF LIFO - UNFAIR SHR HRIMP ALL LLOCATIONS
500 mt 18,417 mt 9,090 mt 19,500 mt 3,800 mt 702 mt 14,269 mt 8,218 mt 16,559 mt 31,637 mt OFFSHORE \ ABORIGINAL - 85,553 MT INSHORE - 36,139 MT
SFA 1996 1997 2009 2015 OS\ABR 500 500 500 500 IS
TOTAL 500 500 500 500
1 OS\ABR 8500 8500 15583 18417 IS
TOTAL 8500 8500 15583 18417
2 (EAZ) OS\ABR 3500 5250 10750 9090 IS
TOTAL 3500 5250 10750 9090
3 (WAZ) OS\ABR 1200 1200 4700 8218 IS
TOTAL 1200 1200 4700 8218
4 OS\ABR 5200 5200 10783 14269 IS 537 702
TOTAL 5200 5200 11320 14971
5 OS\ABR 7650 15300 19500 19500 IS 3800 3800
TOTAL 7650 15300 23300 23300
6 OS\ABR 11050 14050 22212 16559 IS 9050 63513 31637
TOTAL 11050 23100 85725 48196
7 OS\ABR 7594 IS 17396
TOTAL 24990
TL ALL SECTORS
37600 59050 176868 122692
TTL OS\ABR 37600 50000 91622 86553 % OF QUOTA 100% 85% 52% 71% TTL IS 9050 85246 36139 % OF QUOTA 0% 15% 48% 29%
2015 ALLOCATIONS
The inshore shrimp fishery has access to just two shrimp fishing areas… 5&6, off the northeast coast of Newfoundland. The offshore fleet has access to seven fishing areas, 0 to 6, and actively fishes in areas 2 through 6. Just 15% of their shrimp comes from Area 6. In 2009, at the peak of the Northern shrimp fishery the inshore quota in Area 6 was 65,513 tons. The offshore quota was 22,212 tons. Since 2009 because of DFO’s LIFO policy the inshore shrimp fishery has had its quota cut by 58%, while the offshore had their quotas cut by just 6%. As a result, three shrimp plants in Newfoundland have already closed for good, devastating their communities and the communities around them.
PROFILE OF F ACCESS TO NORTHERN SH SHRIMP – OFFSHORE \ ABORIGINAL ALLOCATIONS – SFA’S 0, 1
* ARE THE QUOTAS TAKEN IN AREAS O AND 1? IF NOT WHY ARE THEY STILL IN PLACE SINCE 1996? * WHY DOES THE OFFSHORE NOT FISH AREAS 0 AND 1? - WE BELIEVE ITS NOT FISHED BECAUSE THEY DO NOT HAVE THE TIME, ITS MORE CONVENIENT AND LESS EXPENSE TO FISH AREA 6. WE NEED AN EXPLINATION!!! * AFTER 2008 THE QUOTAS CHANGED IN AREA 1… THEY DON’T ADD UP. WE NEED AN EXPLAINATION!!
THE PRINCIPLE OF ADJACENCY
ONE OF THE FUNDEMENTAL PRIN INCIPLES IN IN THE IN INTEGRATED FIS ISHERY MANAGEMENT PLAN (IF (IFMP) IS IS ADJACENCY… THOSE WHO SHOULD BENEFIT FROM THE RESOURCE THE MOST ARE THE ONES THAT ARE CLOSEST TO THE RESOURCE. . IN IN THIS CASE IN INSHORE FIS ISHERS IN IN NEWFOUNDLAND SHOULD BENEFIT FROM ALL RESOURCES OFF OUR COASTLINES. (A (AREA 6 AND 3K).
RURAL NEWFOUNDLAND IS IS ON LIFE SUPPORT
OUR RESOURCES ARE BE BEING STRIP IPED AWAY FROM US BY Y GOVERNMENT DE
HAVE SEEN OUR FIS ISH STOCKS DE DEPLETED TO THE HE POINT THA HAT WE HA HAVE NOTHING LE LEFT TO SUSTAIN OUR BU
FIS ISHERY IS IS 1/4 /4 OF WHA HAT IT IT USED TO BE BE, , OUR CR CRAB FIS ISHERY HA HAS BE BEEN CU CUT BY Y 65% AND NOW OUR SHR HRIMP FISHERY IS ABOUT TO BE WIPED OUT COMPLETELY IF LIFO STAYS. WE HAVE NO OTHER FISHERY TO TURN TO… COD HA HAS NOT RECOVERD TO A COMERCIAL FIS ISHERY STATUS TO SUSTAIN COMMUNITIES. IT ITS HA HARD TO IM IMAGINE A NEWFOUNDLAND WIT ITHOUT RURAL IN INFLUENCE. IT ITS HA HARD TO COMPREHEND THA HAT RURAL NEWFOUNDLAND COMMUNITIES WIL ILL JU JUST SIT IT ID IDLY BY Y AND WATCH HA HAS OUR ADJCENT RESOURCES ARE FIS ISHED BY Y OFFSHORE IN INTERESTS AND BE BETTER YE YET OUR GOVERNMENT ALL LLOWS IT IT TO HA HAPPEN. UNDER THE HE CU CURRENT LIF LIFO POLI LICY IF IF THE HE TAC IS IS TO BE BE REDU DUCED AGAIN IN IN AREA 6 IT IT WIL ILL BE BE AT THE HE EXPENSE OF THE HE INS INSHORE SECTOR. DO DOES THE HE GOVERNMENT HA HAVE A PLA LAN TO FOLL LLOW IT? IT? THE HE FALLOUT WIL ILL BE BE DE DEVISTATING TO OUR COMMUNITIES, OUR ON SHO HORE PLA LANT OPERATIONS, OUR PLA LANT WORKERS AND OUR FIS
IF WE THO HOUGHT THE HE COD MORTORIUM W WAS TOUGH ON PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES WE CA CAN ONLY IM IMAGINE WHAT THIS WIL ILL LOOK LIK
LIKE THE HE LA LAST ONE (T (TAGS) DU DURING THE HE COD COLLAPSE WON’T CUT IT THIS TIME… IT WILL PALE IN COMPARISON TO WHAT WILL BE EXPECTED. WE DO NOT HAVE ANOTHER FIS ISHERY TO MIG IGRATE TO THI HIS TIM IME SO THE HE EXPECT CTATION OF OUR GOVERNMENT WIL ILL BE BE ENORMOUS. WE HA HAVE A BANKRUPTED PROVINCE, AND A COUNTRY THA HAT MAY NOT BE BE ABL BLE TO HE HELP THI HIS TIM IME SO THE HERE WILL BE NO HANDOUTS. WE HAVE REACHED A CRISIS… THIS IS D-DAY… THIS IS THE FINAL FRONTIER
SH SHOULD LIF LIFO BE CONTINUED, MODIFIED OR ABOLISHED???
ASSESSMENTS WE WILL ONLY HAVE 1/3 OF WHAT WE CAUGHT IN 2015 OR LESS THAN 10,000 MT. THIS WILL MEAN WE WILL HAVE ONLY 1/3 (2.5) PLANTS OF THE 8 NL BASED PLANTS LEFT. THERE WILL BE SO LITTLE FISH TO CATCH AND TO PROCESS IT WILL NOT BE WORTH THE EFFORT FOR INSHORE FISHERS TO FISH AND IT WILL NOT BE WORTH THE EFFORT FOR PLANTS TO OPEN. BOTH FISH HARVESTERS AND ON SHORE PLANTS WILL BE MADE UNVIABLE.
AND THE QUTOA REDUCTION IS SHARED EVENLY THEN IT WILL STILL NOT LEAVE ENOUGH SHRIMP FOR INSHORE FISHERS TO FISH AND BE VIABLE. PLANTS WILL PROCESS MUCH LOWER VOLUMES THAN PREVIOUS YEARS, WORKERS WILL NOT EARN ENOUGH TO QUALIFY FOR EI BENEFITS AND PLANTS WILL ALSO BECOME UNVIABLE.
BE REMOVED FROM AREA 6 AND EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO THE AREA BE GIVEN TO THE INSHORE SECTOR. ABOLISHING LIFO IS NOT ENOUGH AS IT DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN THE OFFSHORE IS REMOVED FROM THE AREA. ITS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND IF A NEW SHARING ARRANGEMENT WILL BE INTRODUCED. ANY ALLOCATION TO THE OFFSHORE IN AREA 6 WILL NOT BE ACCEPTABLE FOR THE INSHORE AS THE OFFSHORE HAVE TONS OF SHRIMP AVAILABLE FURTHER NORTH. THE SABRI QUOTA WHICH IS CAUGHT BY THE OFFSHORE MAY ALSO HAVE TO BE MODIFIED.
SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE. WE DON’T WANT IT TO HAPPEN AGAIN WITH SHRIMP. MINISTER TOOTOO HAS A BIG DECISION TO MAKE BUT HE WILL BE GUIDED BY HIS PEERS, HIS ADVISORS IN HIS OFFICE AND YOU MAP.
What t key considerations (p (prin inciples, s, obje jecti tives, s, stock ck statu tus etc.) c.) sh should in inform any deci cision to continue, modify ify, or abolish LIF IFO
FISHERS AND FISHERIES OUR TIES TO TRADITIONAL FISHERIES AND OUR HISTORICAL DEPENDACY ON THOSE FISHERIES.
ARE GOING BACK TO NOTHING. THERE IS NO OTHER MEANINFUL FISHERY FOR THE INSHORE SECTOR TO PARTICIPATE IN
LAID OFF AND COMMUNITIES DEVISTATED. OUR PROVINCE IS FACING TOUGH ECONOMIC TIMES AND DEALING WITH ANOTHER CRISIS WILL BE CATASTROPHIC.
WITH THE ECOSYSTEM. CAN SHRIMP AND CRAB STOCKS RECOVER? CAN A VIABLE SMAL SCALE INSHORE FISHERY EXIST IN A ECOSYSTEM THAT HAS BOTH SHELLFISH AND FINFISH CO EXIXTING AND AT WHAT LEVEL? IF THE INSHORE HAS EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO SHRIMP WE WILL HAVE 6 MONTHS OF QUIETTIME EVERY YEAR AND WHO KNOWS WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN
FACTORY FREEZER TRAWLER?
KNOW WHAT RESOURSES WE HAVE.
If If you su support changin ing or r aboli lishin ing LIF LIFO, what would ld be th the elem lements of f a new access and allo llocatio ion regim ime for r th the Nort rthern Sh Shri rimp Fish ishery ry?
ARRANGEMENTS OF A REDUCED RESOURCE IN SFA 6. A MORE FAVORABLE SHARING ARRANGEMENT WILL NOT SUFFICE AS ALL WE WILL DO IS MAKE DEBT LAIDEN FISH HARVESTERS UNVIABLE, PLANTS UNVIABLE AND FORCE SHUTDOWNS OF FLEETS AND CLOSURES OF PLANTS. WE ARE OPERATINING ON A SHOWSTRING EVEN WITH 2015 QUOTA LEVELS AND WE WON’T SURVIVE WITH LESS SHRIMP. WE ACKNOWLEDGE THERE WILL BE ANOTHER CUT HOWEVER IF WE OWN IT ALL IN AREA 6 THIS WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE, BUT IF WE DON’T ITS NOT, SO CHANGING LIFO IS NOT AN OPTION.
THE OFFSHORE FROM AREA 6 AND GRANTING EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO THE INSHORE.
OR FOR AREA 6 DO WE CHOOSE