The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has temporarily pulled back on a change of regulation that small scale harvesters had warned would destroy the local spot prawn industry. spot prawn harvest has relied on fishermen who freeze just-caught spot prawns in tubs of salt water — a practice called "tubbing" — to preserve them for transport to local markets. People line up at Vancouver's Fisherman's Wharf during the 2016 Spot Prawn Festival. (CBC)Lawson told CBC that by making tubbing illegal, DFO would be undercutting local markets and prawn harvesters, effectively forcing them to sell to larger industrial outfits who don't pay as well. Johns said if the tubbing is banned it will destroy the livelihood of prawn harvesters and sellers in local communities up and down B.C.

Source: CBC News March 16, 2021 22:30 UTC