Today is World Fisheries Day.
Better than Christmas for those focused on securing a strong, stable and healthy fishery.
Except the presents and the gifts are few and far between for this special occasion and special industry.
More often than not, it's coals in the stockings kinda-feeling.
More challenges than solutions. More talk than action. More short-term take than long-term planning, innovation and investment.
Better than Christmas for those focused on securing a strong, stable and healthy fishery.
Except the presents and the gifts are few and far between for this special occasion and special industry.
More often than not, it's coals in the stockings kinda-feeling.
More challenges than solutions. More talk than action. More short-term take than long-term planning, innovation and investment.
Still, we are thankful for this day for it highlights the most serious problems not just facing NL, other countries, but the entire globe and our 7 billion earthling family members.
All those people need to be fed. And the wild fish population will be critical to this food provision. There is an anticipated increase in global food production in the years ahead and that's just one of the many reasons to step up our game.
World Fisheries Day is also a day to celebrate.
So, on this day I am grateful for our long fishing history and ancestors who nurtured us to this time and place under the stars.
All those people need to be fed. And the wild fish population will be critical to this food provision. There is an anticipated increase in global food production in the years ahead and that's just one of the many reasons to step up our game.
World Fisheries Day is also a day to celebrate.
So, on this day I am grateful for our long fishing history and ancestors who nurtured us to this time and place under the stars.
And I am thankful for the small things, like the recent news that our very own federal government plans to rebuild the Newfoundland Atlantic Cod in the area known as 3PS - on the south coast of our province. Yes, it's the same government that wiped out the world's greatest fishery. After 22 years of a shutdown in our fishery, to see inshore and offshore sectors and the processing sector come together to ensure the long-term sustainability of these stocks is like a very nice Christmas gift. (Let's hope they don't overfish the stock in the process.)
Not to be greedy, but we need more gifts like that.
Why the wild fishery? Well, the wild fisheries matter to people because they provide a truly organic resource; and they provide livelihoods, cultural identity, and a sense of place.
Not to be greedy, but we need more gifts like that.
Why the wild fishery? Well, the wild fisheries matter to people because they provide a truly organic resource; and they provide livelihoods, cultural identity, and a sense of place.
Most importantly, we need to be sustainable to ensure that fishing today does not harm fishing potential for future generations. A kind of fishery that comes around every Christmas for time immortal.
Imagine if Santa would just stop coming how devastating that would be. Same goes for the fishery.
Imagine if Santa would just stop coming how devastating that would be. Same goes for the fishery.
Our fisheries also need the gifts of meeting rural development and local food security needs.
Not for one day only but all year, all decades and all generations long.
So, here's to the day when our fishery stocking will be chock-ful with all the right gifts.
Have a Merry Wild Fishery Day!
Have a Merry Wild Fishery Day!
I, amongst other things, will be eating my small stash of frozen Cod caught by a hard-working Newfoundland fisherman to celebrate!
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