When I first moved to Prince Rupert, it was a booming fishing town. I believe there were seven canneries, 10 fresh-fish plants, three reduction plants, a bunch of net lofts, two boat shops attached to the cannery and two other boat shops that weren't attached to the cannery, and probably around 2,000 to 3,000 shoreworkers, some of whom were union and some of whom were not.
We don't know how many people are going to be employed this summer. The company said it was going to be around 300, but they just had a meeting with my co-worker and said that it was probably going to be around 200 this year. We guess there are around 400 workers left out of around 3,000.
There's only one boat shop, McLean's, and it does all of the boat-shop work in Prince Rupert. There's one net store left, and ancillary industries have just gone down.
The Prince Rupert city council, along with the Port of Prince Rupert just built a new marina, and the new marina was complaining to the city that there are no ancillary industries now to repair any vessels in Prince Rupert.