{"id":762843,"date":"2026-06-26T17:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762843\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:01:13","slug":"minister-defends-lean-operations-as-union-sounds-alarm-over-dfo-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762843\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Defends \u2018Lean\u2019 Operations as Union Sounds Alarm Over DFO Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\t\"Minister<\/p>\n

MP Joanne Thompson (VOCM News)<\/p>\n

The union representing DFO scientists, saying there have been job cuts in the department, is warning of potential mismanagement of fish stocks.<\/p>\n

The federal government has been cutting hundreds of millions in spending across the board, including in DFO.<\/p>\n

Sean O\u2019Reilly, President of The Professional Institute of Canada, says some two dozen marine biologists were cut in this province. He worries that critical conservation measures will be missed due to staff workload.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow you\u2019re going to have fewer people doing the same amount of work and my concern is that things are going to be missed,\u201d he told VOCM News.<\/p>\n

\u201cDFO has worked for years to rebuild things that were lost in the past in the province. To lose that expertise now and have those people walking out the door, you\u2019re going to have fewer people doing the same amount of work.<\/p>\n

St. John\u2019s-East MP and Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Joanne Thompson, believes her department is responsibly balancing cuts and conservation.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur commitment to science remains,\u201d she told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are opportunities, and we certainly have presented with one, to look at our systems and look at where we can streamline to still achieve what it is that we want to achieve, but to ensure that we\u2019re doing it in a manner that\u2019s lean and respectful of our need to be very mindful of the dollars that we spend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MP Joanne Thompson (VOCM News) The union representing DFO scientists, saying there have been job cuts in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-762843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762843","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=762843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}