ARCTIC FISH PROCESSING INDUSTRY DEVELOPING IN CANADA’S NUNAVUT TERRITORY
July 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MAKING a living in the Canadian Arctic is never easy in commercial terms, given the restrictions imposed by the weather, the distances to populous markets and extremely undeveloped transport: there are no roads to and from the territory of Nunavut.
As a result, the new fish processing industry of this Inuit-dominated region - which became a formal territory within Canada in 1999 - has focused much of its efforts offshore, with the independent Baffin Fisheries Coalition owning and operating two freezer factory ships and currently having access to ...
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