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After a little more than a week’s delay, the snow crab season will begin.
In a statement released by Fish, Food & Allied Workers Sunday evening, it was announced that the fish harvesters union has reached a deal with the Association of Seafood Producers for the 2024 snow crab fishery.
“The minimum price for the 2024 crab fishery is $3.00 per pound,” reads the statement.
There will be a reconsideration of the minimum price paid to harvesters after the market for processed crab reaches $6.50 USD.
“This is an historic pricing agreement for harvesters in our province; restoring fairness in the crab fishery and giving harvesters a sharing arrangement they have not seen in a long time,” FFAW-Unifor President Greg Pretty said in the statement.
“Our union will continue our work in ensuring harvesters have a buyer for their catch, not just for snow crab, but for all commercially fished species.”
The FFAW statement also says that plans for a protest at Confederation Building on Monday are cancelled.
Crab fisherman were tied up since the start of the season after the province’s price-setting panel chose a price formula put forward by the ASP, which had set a floor price of $2.60 per pound. The FFAW said its members could not fish under that price formula.
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