LIFO PRESENTATION JUNE 10 th 2016 1. PERSONAL INTRODUCTION AND BACK GROUND 2. BRIEF LIFO STATEMENT 3. FFAW CAMPAIGN 4. BREAK DOWN OF KEY LIFO ISSUES. NOVA SCOTIA AND NEWFOUNDLAND UNDER 100FT FLEET PROCESSING. 5. CLOSING COMMENTS & RECOMMENDATION Author : V Fiander
Part 2. LIFO Last-in, First-out Policy The Last In, First Out policy, known as LIFO, was introduced in 1997 after significant consultation and has been included in every Northern shrimp fisheries management plan for more than ten years. It has been consistently communicated to stakeholders that should there be a decline in the abundance of the resource, new participants/allocations would be reduced or removed from the fishery in reverse order of gaining access–last in, first out. LIFO was also reviewed by a third-party independent reviewer in 2012 who confirmed that the Department was appropriately applying the policy when required in a fair and transparent manner. (From the fisheries and oceans website)
In the 1990s, as the shrimp stocks grew in abundance and the cod moratorium came into effect, temporary inshore licences were introduced throughout Atlantic Canada giving priority access to the under 65 feet fleet and to aboriginals. A three-year plan was announced in 1997 with significant quota increases for both the offshore and temporary inshore licences. Since the introduction of the Last In, First Out policy (LIFO) in 1997, in SFA 6 the under 100ft sector received 90 percent with 10 percent going to the >100’ shrimp sector when stocks increased. (From the fisheries and oceans website) Northern Shrimp Fishery Management Decisions For 2015/2016
I cannot belief we are looking at changing a long standing federal government, policy based on what a union wants or says. The FFAW in NL egos are now so big, their arrogance so great they think they are the social conscious of NL and think they speak for the provincial government of NL. They are woven into the very fabric of the province where every fish harvester and plant workers has to be a member. Their very membership doesn’t even want them! They have become the very thing that Unions were formed to prevent!! The FFAW is fighting to change a principal that ever union in the world is built around Seniority LAST IN FIRST OUT The oppressed truly has become the Oppressor
PART 3 The FFAW campaign paper and my response to those statements. The FFAW paper is from their web site and is titled Adjacency. It consists of two written pages (minus the photos and links at the bottom)
Our resources, our jobs A fair share for rural Newfoundland and Labrador The future of our coastal communities is at risk. Thousands of jobs are in jeopardy due to unfair sharing of the northern shrimp resource. The federal government has deliberately chosen to ignore the longstanding principle of adjacency to the benefit of the corporate-owned offshore fleet, to the detriment of our coastal communities. Our northern shrimp resources are being taken out of our waters with no benefit to our province's economy. In 2014, the inshore shrimp fishery quota was cut by 27 per cent, while the offshore fishery was cut by only 3 per cent. If the current trends continue, the inshore fishery will be slashed by another 50 per cent in 2015. Adjacency Traditionally, the principle of adjacency has been used to manage our fisheries. Adjacency means that those who live alongside the resource should benefit most from it.
Inshore, Offshore and the Northern Shrimp Fishery The northern shrimp fishery is split into the inshore and offshore fishery. The inshore shrimp fishery is composed of over 250 owner-operated enterprises that employ over 1500 crew members from right here in Newfoundland and Labrador. All of the shrimp landed by the inshore fleet is processed in one of the 10 shrimp plants in Newfoundland and Labrador. The offshore shrimp fishery is owned by large businesses and corporations, many are based outside of the province and even outside of Canada. Next to none of the shrimp landed by the offshore fleet is processed in Newfoundland and Labrador . Northern Shrimp and Adjacency Communities depend on the resources adjacent to them. In 2014, the Northern Shrimp fishery was valued at $180 million, supporting 250 owner-operated enterprises, 1500 crew members, and over 1200 plant workers. The inshore fleet landed 45,817 metric tonnes of northern shrimp in 2013, and after the cuts in 2014 they landed 38,555MT, all of which was processed in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Unfair Sharing Our rural communities rely on these resources, as they have for many generations. The federal government is unfairly sharing the northern shrimp resources in the waters off our province, allotting a much larger portion of the quota to the offshore fleet. The federal government is deviating from the longstanding principle of adjacency. They are favoring the offshore fleet and at the same time they are destroying the inshore fleet and our coastal communities. Join us in our campaign against this injustice and attack on rural NL
Our resources, our jobs A fair share for rural Newfoundland and Labrador. The future of our coastal communities is at risk. Thousands of jobs are in jeopardy due to unfair sharing of the northern shrimp resource. The off shore vessels through their partnerships with the licence holders distribute royalties, these royalties are divide among 116 coastal communities in Newfoundland and Labrador. Vessel operations directly support over 2,000 additional shore-based jobs, mostly in NL and Nova scotia . The federal government has deliberately chosen to ignore the longstanding principle of 1. adjacency to the benefit of the corporate-owned offshore fleet, To the determent of our costal communities
Our northern shrimp resources are being taken out of our waters with no benefit to our province's economy. This is an irresponsible and uninformed and misleading statement. FAS shrimp operators maintains 700 well-paying jobs (530 crew and 170 on shore) for workers of all ranks, FAS vessels purchase $89 M in local goods and services annually, related to maintenance, supplies, fuel, transshipment, cold storage, off loading, stevedoring, and a host of other specialized service. (capp) Wade Locke, Memorial University economist from a presentation he gave at a St. John's Board of Trade ( source cbc news) “On average, one should expect that each tonne transferred from the Newfoundland and Labrador year-round sector to the Newfoundland and Labrador seasonal sector will cause Newfoundland and Labrador's GDP to fall by $540 per tonne.“
In 2014, the inshore shrimp fishery quota was cut by 27 per cent, while the offshore fishery was cut by only 3 per cent. If the current trends continue, the inshore fishery will be slashed by another 50 per cent in 2015. This is appears to be true, it was done using the Last in First out Policy 1. Adjacency Traditionally, the principle of adjacency has been used to manage our fisheries. Adjacency means that those who live alongside the resource should benefit most from it. In 1978 the Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced that the first 11 licences would be allocated to enterprises and organisations in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador. The principle that people in coastal regions contiguous or adjacent to the resource ought to have priority in accessing the resource played a particularly important role in the allocation of shrimp licences to Newfoundland and Labrador. While two of the five licences for Newfoundland and Labrador were allocated to Fishery Products International, three licences were allocated to cooperatives along the coast of Labrador.
Inshore, Offshore and the Northern Shrimp Fishery The northern shrimp fishery is split into the inshore and offshore fishery. The proper DFO designation, vessels “less than 100ft, under 500t”,(referred to as the under 100ft fleet) and “over 100ft , over 500t”. The vast majority of the “inshore vessels” are a highly mobile fleet, that are often seen 100 miles or more off shore and many have been often seen in the vicinity of the 200 mile limit. If this is inshore what is offshore? The inshore shrimp fishery is composed of over 250 owner-operated enterprises that employ over 1500 crew members from right here in Newfoundland and Labrador. Very, few vessels appear to be actually owner operator, most are captains and crews hired by the owners. Many more are, are owned or controlled by large companies such as Quinlan brothers and Janes. Several more licenses are under direct control of Foreign Companies. Royal Greenland, majority owner of Quin sea, now controls, the vessels and licenses, and quota for not only northern shrimp but all other species as well. (march 11 2016)
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