Another week and another fish plant closes permanently.
This time it is one of the plants that should have been the basis of a vibrant fishery. The Burin plant did mostly secondary processing rather than just basic processing turning fish into big frozen blocks for someone else to develop into a higher value product.
Those of us who warned that smashing Fishery Products International to pieces was stupid government policy take no comfort in this sort of development.
But there is no mistaking the pattern that the Burin closure continues. it’s just the hurricane that will produce more dramatic change across Newfoundland than the 1992 cod moratorium ever did.
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