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Newfoundland processor group leader fires back at call for resignation over crab quality comments

'It's a different product. No barnacles, redder crab, bigger crab, better yields and closer to market ...' -- Derek Butler, Association of Seafood Producers, on crab caught in the southern Gulf of Saint Lawrence

By Jason Huffman | March 30, 2022 18:01 BST
Image is still of Derek Butler, executive director of the Association of Seafood Producers, in an NTV interview on March 29, 2022.
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The pitch of the fight over price negotiations in the valuable Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) snow crab fishery hit a new level of intensity this week after a trade association representing seafood harvesters in the Canadian province asked Derek Butler on Wednesday (March 30) to resign as executive director of the Association of Seafood Producers (ASP) over comments he made about NL crab quality in a television report [...]

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