Residents of a southern Newfoundland community who worked at a seafood processing plant that had once been considered a model in the fishery say they are overwhelmed by news that it will soon close.
High Liner Foods Inc. revealed Thursday it will shut its secondary processing plant in Burin by the end of the year. It is also closing a plant in Danvers, Mass., that it also acquired in the 2007 breakup of Fishery Products International.
“I never thought it would come to this,” said Cathy Dimmer, a local rep with the Fish, Food and Allied Workers union.
