Barb Dean-Simmons

‘We are looking for certainty. We are looking for trade agreements that we can rely on for extended periods of time’ — Kirs Vascotto, executive director of the Nova Scotia Seafood Alliance

Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court justice Alexander MacDonald’s ruling also challenges the nature of control agreements between processors and harvesters in the snow crab fishery

Bradley George, who has 20 years of experience in public policy and strategic planning, officially steps into the role on May 11

On protein content, there is no scientifically significant difference between farmed and wild salmon, a conclusion supported by studies conducted in Canada as well as in Norway and Scotland, said Stefanie Colombo, Dalhousie University

‘The European Union is Canada’s third-largest export market for fish and seafood’ — Canada’s fisheries minister Joanne Thompson

‘There are no immediate changes to day-to-day operations. Comeau’s Sea Foods will continue to operate from locations across Southwest Nova Scotia, and the Comeau name will remain as part of the business’ — Comeau president Noel Deprés

Harvesters in one fishing area have set their traps, but most of the 2,200 crab boats in the Canadian province remain tied up

The acquisition, if completed and approved, would give Mersey and another company almost half of Canada’s offshore quota

‘As long as the price remains unacceptably low, there will be no crab processed in Newfoundland and Labrador plants’ — Dwan Street, Fish Food and Allied Workers

The price-setting panel will meet on March 30, and the deadline to set dock prices under the Fishing Industry Collective Bargaining Act is April 6, the Newfoundland and Labrador government advised in a statement to the media