As the local workforce ages and young people leave for other parts of Canada, seafood processing companies say this foreign manpower is sorely needed.
“It’s not like we can store lobster in a shed,” said Nathanael Richard, director of corporate affairs at Westmorland Fisheries Ltd., one of the largest lobster processors in Canada.
Many of the processors’ workers were forced to leave in April 2015 because of the four-year limit on their stay in Canada. Companies also hired fewer of them because of the workforce caps.
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