Editor's Notebook

Will Amendments Stabilize or Jeopardize the Crab Fishery?

Editorial Kerry Hann -
The Newfoundland and Labrador Standing Fish Price Setting Panel’s snow crab decision has become a rite of spring in Newfoundland and Labrador. Over the last...

Marine Safety is No Accident

Editor's Notebook Kerry Hann -
For more than a decade, The Navigator’s May issue has focused on the inherent dangers faced by commercial fishermen today, as well as the...

Dangling the Sword of Damocles

Editorial Kerry Hann -
Let’s blow the dust off our ancient manuscripts and harken back to 45 B.C. and the time of the Roman philosopher Cicero and his...

The Multi-Million-Dollar Question

Editor's Notebook Kerry Hann -
In 2018, the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) published a document entitled Outlook to 2027 for Canadian Fish and Seafood. At the time,...

Manifest Destiny for the 21st Century

Editor's Notebook Kerry Hann -
British activist Tim Field once wrote “bullies thrive wherever authority is weak.” School-age children today are taught from a very early age that bullying is...

Will Trump 2.0 Cause Twice the Uncertainty?

Editor's Notebook Kerry Hann -
Well-known American scholar Thomas Sowell once wrote “economists are often asked to predict what the economy is going to do. But economic predictions require...

Sound Advice or Stating the Obvious?

Editor's Notebook Kerry Hann -
As our studious readers are well aware, once in a while we like to remove the dust cover, clean the gunk from the carburetor...

Pouring Cold Water on the Ocean Warming Theory

Editor's Notebook Kerry Hann -
On September 25, our neighbours and industry competitors south of the border marked their 9th annual National Lobster Day. The special day devoted to homarus...

Taking the Temperature of the Snow Crab Fishery

Editor's Notebook Kerry Hann -
After another rocky start to this year’s snow crab season, the principal takeaway from the majority of harvesters is that 2024 appears to be...

Crab Fishery on the Rebound

Editor's Notebook Kerry Hann -
With all of the recent kerfuffle over cod and the subsequent ending of the three decades-old groundfish moratorium, the talk over the all-important snow...

Gone But Never Forgotten

Editor's Notebook Navigator -
“And they affirm that the sea is covered with fish which are caught not merely with nets but with baskets, a stone being attached...

Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?

Editor's Notebook Navigator -
Another North Atlantic summer season is upon us and we find ourselves with yet another government-generated report about seals and the state, or lack...
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