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Newfoundland snow crab harvesters, processors melt down over yet another season delay

'How do we keep using a process that creates pure turmoil each and every year to try to set fish prices? ... The people we have running this industry wouldn't run a garden party!!!!' -- Facebook post by a Newfoundland crab harvester

By Barb Dean-Simmons | March 28, 2025 17:18 GMT
Snow crab pots will sit idle on Newfoundland and Labrador wharves at least until the second week in April. Photo by Tim Moffitt.
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The Fish Food and Allied Workers (FFAW), the union that represents snow crab harvesters in Newfoundland and Labrador, added a warning when it advised its members on Facebook Friday (March 28) that the process for setting dock prices in the Canadian province had been delayed another week [...]

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