Cooke CEO Urges NL Premier to Withdraw from National Marine Conservation Area Proposal
Canadian seafood company Cooke Inc. urged the government to rethink the creation of a National Marine Conservation Area in Canada’s Newfoundland and Labrador Province.
In a letter to NL’s Office of the Premier, Cooke Inc. CEO Glenn Cooke urged Premier Andrew Furey to withdraw from the Memorandum of Understanding to establish the conservation area in the South Coast Fjords region of the province.
Cooke argued that the conservation area, approximately 911,000 hectares (9,110 square kilometers) of provincial inshore waters, would “eliminate fisheries and...
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