Nunavut communities to see donated shrimp, turbot, despite struggling fishery – CBC

Pandemic money for food waste serves northern seafood to Nunavummiut that’s usually sold to countries in Asia

Oct 09, 2020

Nunavummiut families in need will have seafood in their freezers this winter.

Hunters in Iqaluit offloaded nearly five tonnes of cooked and frozen northern shrimp at the community’s breakwater on Wednesday. The pallets of shrimp were shuttled by small boats from the Baffin Fisheries factory freezer vessel Sivulliq.

That’s around 1,000 boxes of shrimp at five kilograms per box.

In Pangnirtung, around 18.6 tonnes of frozen turbot from Pangnirtung Fisheries Ltd. that didn’t fit on the sealift this year will be shared with communities as well until March of next year.

Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nunavut-communities-to-see-donated-turbot-shrimp-from-struggling-fishery-1.5753842

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