Fisheries issues percolate again this summer

The ongoing crisis in the Pacific fishery once again plays out this summer, as the Northern View outlines with a story posted to its website on Thursday, local commercial fishermen took their concerns to the Prince Rupert offices of the Department of Fisheries.

Thursday’s item provides some background on the protest of about 60 commercial fishermen who expressed their concerns over the fate of the gill net fishery this summer, that after DFO announced the closure of the fishery yesterday and suggested that there would not be any announcements regarding its fate until next week…

(from  the blog a town called podunk, click on the link below to see the entire article atowncalledpodunk.blogspot.com/2 … 8454862486 )-