Price Negotiations Process is Skewed in Favour of Processing Companies

The provincial government recently released the review recommendations for our fishery’s price setting panel late last week. The review was mainly done in response to the 2022 fishery — where processors refused to sit across the negotiations table from us, refused to pay the prices set by the panel and closed some fisheries down entirely. 2022 was by far the most difficult year of negotiations I can recall as someone who has been around the table now for over a decade. I’ve been ...