Fisherman's Road

I gave the following presentation today (May 24th) in St. John’s to the Ministerial Advisory Panel conducting an external review of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ Last-in, First-out policy (LIFO) for the northern shrimp fishery. To begin, I’d like to thank the Ministerial Advisory Panel for the work you’re doing in carrying out this external review of the federal department’s Last-in, First-out policy for the northern shrimp fishery. Thank you. The panel is to provide advice on whether the LIFO policy specific to the northern shrimp fishery should be continued, modified or abolished.  My recommendation is that the policy be abolished.  But I’ll get there in a moment — I’d like to first put my presentation, my comments, in context.  My perspective is that of a former Newfoundland and Labrador Member of Parliament (2011-2015). Prior to that I was a journalist. I have followed the fisheries closely since the early 1990s, since before the colla