‘This injustice must be reversed’: N.B. lobster Class B fisherman, family make plea for rule change
He isn’t the only one fighting against the decades-old policy. A law firm, Cox and Palmer, is representing the remaining 70 Class B fishers in the Maritimes, who have taken the federal government to court.“These fishermen are suffering as they prepare themselves and their families for hardships that could easily be avoided,” Michel P. Samson, with Cox and Palmer, said in a statement.
But for Arseneau, the wounds of the policy run deep. He’s been fighting it for five decades, but his cancer diagnosis has worsened and Maryse Arseneau said her family doesn’t know how much time they have left with their beloved grandfather.“When the ‘moonlighter’ policy was first introduced, all of the downgraded lobster fishermen were told by then-DFO Minister Romeo Leblanc if we were to retire or lose our second job, we would be able to regain our Class A designation,” he said in his letter.
Maryse Arseneau said her family doesn’t believe her grandfather will make it to the next fishing season, so time is of the essence.More than 1,000 letters have been written to Fisheries and Oceans Minister Joyce Murray, but Arseneau said there has been no movement on the file or communications to the fishers involved or their families.
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