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Professionalization?

• Professionalization means to recognize the skills and experiences needed to become a professional fish harvester. 

• Fishermen can regulate their own profession by setting training and experience standards needed to do their job.

Why Should Fishermen Professionalize?

• The future will face a shortage of new entrants coming into the industry.  Having a recognized professional industry will attract more new people into the profession.

• Professionalization would set the criteria for new entrants. 

• It would recognize the training fishermen have already done.

• Today's fishermen are faced with new challenges that demand new knowledge and skills.

• The fishing industry is sometimes portrayed as a "job of last resort". Professionalization would make society realize that fishing takes skills, and has a large impact on coastal communities across Canada.

• Fishermen need to be part of the decision making process for training requirements regulated by government. By having a Professionalization body in place, an industry voice on training needs can
  be provided.

• Recognize fishing as a career not a job just anyone can do.

• Allow Fishermen to steer their own course.