The Fisheries Broadcast
with John Furlong

Protests continue at the crab plant in La Scie, but the minister of Fisheries says there's nothing he can do. We'll hear from protestors AND the minister.  And after two decades as the head of the union local in Valleyfield, Paul Keane is stepping aside.

Former Fisheries Minister Trevor Taylor has some words of advice for fisheries critic Jim Bennettt... stick to the facts.  You're doing a disservice to the aquaculture industry when you throw around words like 'Frankenfish".  Speaking of aquaculture... the industry's fees have gone up.  Some by 400 perecent.

A Vancouver-based journalist says the lobby against salmon farming uses too much junk science and too many questionable studies... and therefore puts forward a skewed view of what aquaculture is all about.

It's what people who worry about aquaculture fear most... escapes from salmon farms.  Now officials from DFO have confirmed that escaped farmed salmon have turned up along side wild salmon in the Garnish River on the Burin Peninsula.

A harvester worries about this year's cod fishery with a price that's looking like it will be below last year's - and a conversation with Danny Dumeresque about getting away from some aspects of the fishery and maybe getting closer to some aspects of politics.

Search and Rescue surfaces again in the legislature today, the N.D.P. fisheries critic on issues in Southern Labrador, and the pros and cons of catch-and-release.