As we move in­to an­oth­er new year, the Fish­er­men and Friends of the Sea (FFOS) of­fers their wish list for 2015:

�2 That the Gov­ern­ment open dis­cus­sions on rea­son­able fish­ery com­pen­sa­tion for the mas­sive Petrotrin oil spills and COREX­IT tox­i­c­i­ty

�2 That the EMA re­quire de­tailed en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pact as­sess­ment's for all ma­rine seis­mic sur­veys (bomb­ing)

�2 That the Gov­ern­ment con­sult stake­hold­ers on the se­cret re­draft­ing of the EMA Act

�2 That the Green Fund re­cip­i­ents, and quan­tum's dis­persed from 2010 to 2014 be made pub­lic

�2 That the Gov­ern­ment de­vel­op emer­gency re­sponse leg­is­la­tion and a co-or­di­nat­ed plan for pri­vate/pub­lic fa­cil­i­ties/equip­ment in na­tion­al chem­i­cal and en­er­gy in­dus­try emer­gen­cies

�2 That the Gov­ern­ment make pub­lic all main­te­nance sched­ules, pub­lic risk and warn­ings re­lat­ing to Petrotrin's ag­ing and di­lap­i­dat­ed in­fra­struc­ture.

�2 That the DPP charges brought against two FFOS sup­port­ers and it's cor­po­rate sec­re­tary be ex­posed as dis­crim­i­na­to­ry and in­tend­ed to con­trol the as­sem­bly and move­ment of slaves, of which we are not! (An­ti­quat­ed law)

�2 That FFOS ju­di­cial ac­tions con­tin­ue to pro­tect our vul­ner­a­ble, cre­ate le­gal prece­dents to en­sure good pub­lic ad­min­is­tra­tion and ul­ti­mate­ly ben­e­fit the Com­mon­wealth. (FFOS are cur­rent­ly be­fore the High Court on one mat­ter and be­fore the Ap­peal Court on an­oth­er.)

�2 That our Ho­n­ourable Prime Min­is­ter, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar be­gin peace­ful me­di­a­tion of the con­cerns raised by the High­way Re-Route Move­ment

�2 That the Gov­ern­ment ex­tend a hu­man­i­tar­i­an arm to those fish­er fam­i­lies who have re­cent­ly suf­fered loss on the North Coast, while al­so as­sist­ing our mem­bers to ob­tain in­sur­ance (cur­rent­ly un­avail­able)

�2 That Gov­ern­ment up­hold the law, pros­e­cute il­le­gal and un­sus­tain­able shrimp trawlers re­cent­ly ar­rest­ed poach­ing east of Saut D'Eau Is­land, and en­force the "One Strike Out" clause agreed by all 18 stake­hold­ers!

�2 That our God-giv­en potable wa­ter aquifers on the North­ern range be pro­tect­ed for fu­ture gen­er­a­tions.

�2 That sup­ple­men­tal CECs be re­quired for all reck­less­ly ap­proved quar­ries grant­ed with­out en­vi­ron­men­tal safe­guards in sen­si­tive aquifer ar­eas.

Gary Aboud

Cor­po­rate sec­re­tary, FFOS