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Ref. : CCPFH Newsletter - Volume 1, Issue 2

Nov. 5, 2004 CCPFH Conference excerps

THEMATIC 4 – The benefits of Professionalization ____________________________________________________

Professionalization of Fish Harvesters in the Southern Gulf

Southern Gulf Professionalization Project

A major initiative aimed at establishing a professional certification program in the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence has been underway over the past year. Three provinces and three fleet sectors are involved affecting about 13,000 fish harvesters in the region. Fleet sector working groups, provincial professionalization committees and a southern gulf steering committee working with the organizations representing fish harvesters have developed a program and structure for professionalization in the Southern Gulf that promises to create the opportunity and capacity for fish harvesters to deal with the significant human resource issues they face in today’s fishery.

An extensive validation process has been in place and some fleet sectors are now ready to implement a certification program. Administrative arrangements and some further work on governance issues will soon provide the basis for completing validation. Discussions with DFO and provincial governments that will provide the formal recognition of the certification systems are underway. It may soon be a reality that the Southern Gulf becomes the third region following Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec to have established a harvester led professionalization certification system.

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