{"id":658964,"date":"2026-05-09T21:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658964\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:38:09","slug":"mhas-unanimously-support-extended-cod-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658964\/","title":{"rendered":"MHAs Unanimously Support Extended Cod Season"},"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\/2026\/05\/food-fishery-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"MHAs Unanimously Support Extended Cod Season\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(via Mark Butt)<\/p>\n<p>Members of the House of Assembly have unanimously supported a member statement by Fogo Island-Cape Freels MHA Jim McKenna\u00a0seeking\u00a0an extension to the\u00a0seasonal food fishery.<\/p>\n<p>He called on the provincial government to lobby\u00a0federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson to extend the dates\u00a0for the annual food fishery from three days a week to full weeks\u00a0during the summer months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m asking the federal Minister of Fisheries, Joanne Thompson, who is from the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, to apply the right changes, as requested by the people of this province, treat the public of Newfoundland and Labrador with the same fairness and equality as the rest of Atlantic Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One after the other, members of the House of Assembly spoke passionately about their own time on the water and what the ability to catch a few cod means to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mark-butt.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-298660\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mark-butt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-298660\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-298660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MHA Mark Butt enjoying a day on the water (submitted photo)<\/p>\n<p>Mark Butt of Twillingate perhaps said, \u201cthere\u2019s nothing better than sitting there, sun coming down, flat calm\u2026and you get a fish, a good sized one, and nothing better. I can\u2019t describe the sound of the line going over the gunnels as you\u2019re pulling up the fish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (via Mark Butt) Members of the House of Assembly have unanimously supported a member statement by Fogo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-658964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658964","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=658964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}