02/23/2024
This will have a huge negative impact on our small communities! Poudie Hamilton & family have done an incredible amount to boost the economy in our area. Because of him, new businesses have opened, and young people who had gone out west to find work, were able to find meaningful employment opportunities & raise their families here .
It is hard to imagine how, without consultation, Dept of Fisheries could wipe out the livelihood of so many with a swipe of a pen!
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We need your help! Our group of businesses that you’ve come to know and love are the product of a passion for community, that was made possible by the financial support of our parent company Hamilton’s Eel Fishery. Which continues to be a safety net during difficult economic periods.
Through the years Roland ‘Poudie’ Hamilton has used this seasonal profit to reinvest in several community businesses, including our own, creating countless direct and indirect jobs at businesses like:
Fort View Golf Course
Junction Sixteen
The Whiskey Teller
Lunn's Mill Beer Co.
Hamilton’s Fish
D'Aubin Family Meats
Founders House Dining and Drinks
Prime's Marshalltown Market
The Government of Canada and the Department of Fisheries are threatening to interrupt our fishing industry in 2024.
The short of it: eeling is lucrative and unlike other sectors of the fishing industry one's ability to eel fish illegally is far easier. The influx of poachers over the past years has been unprecedented. Instead of doing their job and effectively policing this industry, on the ground with officers and by introducing measures to mitigate the sale of illegal eels, DFO has done effectively nothing.
Now, with pressure to police properly, DFO would prefer to close the season and pave the way for poachers to flood the riverbanks while punishing law-abiding license holders and First Nation fishers alike.
We need help from you, our patrons, our community. We need to put more pressure on the Minster of Fisheries to stop her from making this decision.
What can you do: follow this link: https://ccsef.ca/support/ , and click ‘Email the Minister’. Send this email as many times as you can.
And share our story.
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Editorial Cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon at the The Chronicle Herald
