ACOA stands for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. This agency is supposed to develop the Atlantic area and to distribute money amongst the small economic hubs of the region, but it does not do this. It does not respect its mandate, at least not at certain levels and certainly not in the fishing sector. In Ottawa, the officials are saying that there will not be any more fishing in the eastern part of the country until the end of the century. However, fishing is not over. Every year we put our boats into the water and we fish.
On April 18th, 2008. See this statement in context.