{"id":300556,"date":"2025-11-22T23:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T23:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/300556\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T23:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T23:17:08","slug":"federal-tariff-relief-wont-cut-it-for-fishing-industry-says-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/300556\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Tariff Relief \u2018Won\u2019t Cut It\u2019 for Fishing Industry, Says Premier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tony-wakeham.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Federal Tariff Relief 'Won't Cut It' for Fishing Industry, Says Premier\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Premier Tony Wakeham (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The premier says there\u2019s \u201cmore work that needs to be done\u201d to help support the province\u2019s fishing industry in the wake of Chinese tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Tony Wakeham\u2019s comments come on the heels of the passing of the federal budget, which called for $80-million for tariff relief between all four Atlantic provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Wakeham says the fishing industry sends nearly $300-million to China in fish exports, equating to nearly $65-million.<\/p>\n<p>He says a slice of $80-million simply won\u2019t cut it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now the Chinese tariffs are having the largest impact on our fishing industry and the potential to have a significant impact,\u201d he told reporters this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you think the announcement in the budget, the federal budget talked about an $80-million fund to help offset some of the costs or the expenses or ways of diversifying markets for all of Atlantic Canada, and we\u2019re talking about a potential of a $65-million hit right here in our own province.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Premier Tony Wakeham (VOCM News) The premier says there\u2019s \u201cmore work that needs to be done\u201d to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-300556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}