The Sir Robert Bond Papers

Last week, provincial fisheries minister Vaughn Granter held a news conference at a local restaurant known for its seafood dishes to announc...

Maybe it was the headline on John Ivison’s opinion piece in the National Post that threw them off. Spat over $400M N.L. fund could mak...

Two years. That’s all it took to destroy the provincial government’s historic fisheries policy that had been built on the highly successfu...

About 30 years ago , Kathy Dunderdale started out her political career fighting against fisheries reform. Last December,   she scolded fis...

People drawing unemployment insurance in the Atlantic provinces might be in for a new way of life in the near future, if changes to the Empl...

Thursday’s announcement by fisheries minister Darin King should give you a pretty big reminder that the local political scene remains mired ...

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is holding a consultation on the future direction of the commercial fishery in Canada. it builds off ...

A strange as it may seem after years of evidence that political interference in fisheries management has caused nothing but grief, there are...

The basic problem in the fishery is that the provincial fisheries minister has too much control over the industry and  - inevitably - tends ...

The CBC online account is on the Ceeb’s website ( here ). That’s pretty much what everyone has been reporting, namely the impact fisheries m...

Scientists told some American fishermen before Christmas that the cod the fishermen depend on for their livelihood are in danger of disappe...

A couple of provocative articles turned up online over the holidays.  Now that everyone is getting back into the work-a-day groove, check th...

Pay attention to some of the comments about the fishery the past couple of weeks and you’ll here talk about how we need to change the model....

Fisheries union Earle McCurdy took a political chainsaw to the provincial government on Tuesday, accusing the governing Conservatives of buy...

Ocean Choice International’s Martin Sullivan was the guest this week on CBC’s On Point . That’s a link to a CBC story that includes the whol...

Remember that thing about not being able to slide a sheet of paper between the three political parties on major issues? Well, it continu...

News today that OCI will permanently close two of its fish plants is merely the start of it. The hurricane of change that is sure to foll...

Ocean Choice international is a local fishing company.  The key players in the company are from the Sullivan family. You will recall one m...

Yesterday’s man delivered yesterday’s ideas and claimed it was the future. Liberal leader Kevin Aylward unveiled his party’s fisheries pla...

Not to be outdone by the Dippers, the Grits and their leader Kevin Aylward will release their fisheries policy on Friday at 11:00 AM at the ...