Guest Commentary: What about the Fishery?
The executive director of the Association of Seafood Producers of Newfoundland & Labrador asks whether Canada has the nerve to fix the fishery.
Ideas Matter 5
The fifth edition of Ideas Matter takes a look at AIMS' extensive work in the fishing and aquaculture industries. Ten years after publishing "Taking Ownership", AIMS suggests the answer to the question of whether it matters who owns our fish is just as important as ever.
The Beacon, 30 June 2006
How Canada's Equalization program over-equalizes. How the fishery needs to be rationalized. How the Newfoundland government is hampering business in that province. And how agriculture needs to work in today's world, not yesterday's. All this and more in this edition of The Beacon.
Just too many – plants, boats & people
How the rationalization of the Newfoundland and Labrador fishery is the key to its future.
The Beacon, 24 April 2006
In this edition of The Beacon there's news on the catastrophic gap in drug coverage; a new paper that shows aquaculture is FARMING, not fishing; and a lesson in resource revenue economics.
It is FARMING, not Fishing
Re-thinking how we view Canada’s aquaculture industry
It is FARMING, not Fishing
Author Robin Neill, professor of Economics at UPEI, examines the bureaucracy surrounding the aquaculture industry in Canada and calls for a fundamental reorientation. In "It is FARMING, not Fishing", Neill concludes aquaculture needs to be separated from the administration of the wild fishery, which means taking it out of the jurisdiction of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO).
A New Year’s Make-Over for Federal Policy in Atlantic Canada
It's just days from the federal election, days of political promises and political finger-pointing. In this series of commentaries, AIMS lays out the public policy issues that will mean make a difference in Atlantic Canada. It is not a wish list for handouts or preferential treatment. Collectively they are a request that whoever forms the new government thoroughly scrutinize and quantify the actual effects of existing policies. We believe that such an examination will lead to the same conclusions that many authors published by AIMS have arrived at over the past several years.
The Beacon, October 31, 2005
From private universities to fencing the fishery to US trade, this Beacon has a little bit for everyone.
Fencing the Fishery
To read the news, you'd think that the fishery in Canada is dying, yet it is making more money than ever. Here is a paper that explains what Canada can do to make the fishery more prosperous, more economic, and better managed.