Only two new processing licences for snow crab were approved by Fisheries Minister Derrick Bragg earlier this week. ( Fish, Food and Allied Workers - image credit)Fish, Food and Allied WorkersThe chair of Newfoundland and Labrador's Fish Processing Licensing Board is speaking out after Fisheries Minister Derrick Bragg overruled the board and denied coveted crab licences for plants in two communities. The board had recommended that four processing plants receive snow crab licences — St. Mary's Bay Fisheries, Dandy Dan's in Argentia, Bay Roberts Seafoods and HSF Ocean Products in O'Donnells. However, Bragg only approved crab licences for two of the plants, in St. Mary's and in Argentia. Anstey, a veteran of the fisheries labour movement, said he could not remember a minister going against a board recommendation.

Source: CBC News May 27, 2022 18:58 UTC