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Eugene O’Leary Takes the Reins at LCC: New President a Staunch Believer in Marketing Canadian Lobsters and Owner/Operator Policy

Eugene O’Leary, an inshore harvester from Guysborough County, is the newly minted president of the Lobster Council of Canada (LCC). He is adamant about two beliefs — the Atlantic lobster needs a marketing strategy with a global reach which the LCC can accomplish, but needs the entire industry behind it and secondly the demise of the owner/operator policy will be end of the independent harvester. O’Leary was in Yarmouth recently to attend a director’s meeting of the council when ...

Results of FFAW-Unifor Executive Board Election

On August 4, the FFAW-Unifor Elections Committee tallied the mail-in ballots for the tri-annual Executive Board election, where eight positions were contested. The Elections Committee, chaired by Reg Anstey, reported the results as follows: Position: President Candidate: Keith Sullivan Election Winner: Elected by Acclamation Position: Secretary-Treasurer Candidates: David Decker and Peter Leonard Election Winner: David Decker Position: VP – Inshore Candida...