The Association of Seafood Producers (ASP) has dropped a complaint against Quin-Sea Fisheries related to its claims that the company withheld information required to determine the price of snow crab.
ASP represents seafood-processing companies in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador and is one of the two parties that negotiates the minimum price that will be paid to snow crab harvesters in the province. ASP – along with the Fish, Food, and Allied Workers Union (FFAW) – present information and a price proposal to the Newfoundland and Labrador Standing Fish Prices Setting Panel, which then determines the minimum price buyers must pay to harvesters for snow crab and other species.
The ASP submitted a complaint to the Newfoundland and Labrador Labor Relations Board, alleging Quin-Sea Fisheries – which was purchased by Royal Greenland in 2016 and is a member of ASP – refused to provide sales data on 5- to 8-ounce sections of crab delivered to Boston. According to ASP and the FFAW, the information was required to complete a third-party review of 2024 snow crab sales.
ASP claimed Royal Greenland did not provide the required data to third-party auditor Deloitte, which meant the auditor could not complete a review of the fishery per the Master Collective Agreement (MCA) and Crab Schedule in Newfoundland.
The result, according to the FFAW, was that ASP couldn’t ...
