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Trevor Taylor and Susanna Fuller

Trevor Taylor is a former cod fisherman, FFAW union board member, and minister of fisheries and aquaculture in Newfoundland and Labrador. He is vice-president of Conservation at Oceans North. Susanna Fuller has a PhD from Dalhousie University, where she studied marine sponges and the impacts of deep-sea fishing. She is Oceans North’s vice-president of Operations and Projects.

One year after the new Fisheries Act, Canada has yet to act on troubled fisheries

Canada's federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Bernadette Jordan , pictured in this file photograph on the Hill. But despite the new Fisheries Act, we have yet to see long-term needs win out over what’s politically convenient in the short term. Public trust can only be restored if there are clear decisions, often hard ones, made in the interests of a future in Canada that includes fish, write Trevor Taylor and Susanna Fuller. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Canada's federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Bernadette Jordan , pictured in this file photograph on the Hill. But despite the new Fisheries Act, we have yet to see long-term needs win out over what’s politically convenient in the short term. Public trust can only be restored if there are clear decisions, often hard ones, made in the interests of a future in Canada that includes fish, write Trevor Taylor and Susanna Fuller. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Canada's federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Bernadette Jordan , pictured in this file photograph on the Hill. But despite the new Fisheries Act, we have yet to see long-term needs win out over what’s politically convenient in the short term. Public trust can only be restored if there are clear decisions, often hard ones, made in the interests of a future in Canada that includes fish, write Trevor Taylor and Susanna Fuller. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Canada's federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Bernadette Jordan , pictured in this file photograph on the Hill. But despite the new Fisheries Act, we have yet to see long-term needs win out over what’s politically convenient in the short term. Public trust can only be restored if there are clear decisions, often hard ones, made in the interests of a future in Canada that includes fish, write Trevor Taylor and Susanna Fuller. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade