Fishers and FFMC At Odds Over Fish Plant

Fishers and FFMC At Odds Over Fish Plant

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 15:17

 

 

The president of Saskatchewan Commercial Fisheries says he isn’t sure the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation wants a processing plant in Prince Albert.

 

The fishers have been working for the last two years to raise enough funds to establish a $4 million facility in Prince Albert, so that northern fishers can get more money for their fish.

 

But John Carriere says his latest correspondence with the FFMC hasn’t been re-assuring.

 

According to Carriere, the project would function more like a packing plant — and not a processing facility — under the latest business plan to be developed by the corporation.

 

Carriere says only a processing facility will satisfy northern fishers.

 

But FFMC official Stephen Kendall says Carriere is mistaken.

 

Kendall says the fishers have four business plans to choose from, and all of them call for a processing plant — not a packing plant.

 

However, Kendall says the corporation does reserve the right to spell out a production schedule that the plant would have to adhere to under each scenario.

 

The plant was originally supposed to be operational last spring, but the fishers have had a hard time satisfying potential investors.