By\u00a0 John Chilibeck Local Journalism Initiative Reporter \u00a004\/08\/2024\u00a0 The businesswoman whose family single-handedly developed New Brunswick’s baby eel industry has laid out why Ottawa’s proposed new sharing of the fishery with First Nations is unfair and threatens the livelihoods of her employees. Mary Ann Holland says her family built the business from scratch and developed it into a multi-million-dollar industry that employs dozens of people. The federal government’s proposals would discourage other family-run businesses and damage the local economy, she argues. “The industry should not be gutted at the expense of the employees and the families of those who have spent their lives creating and building it,” the Rothesay businesswoman told Brunswick News. “As an industry, we should be asked to contribute to reconciliation and, when asked, we have. It… <\/p>\n
By\u00a0 John Chilibeck Local Journalism Initiative Reporter \u00a004\/08\/2024\u00a0 The businesswoman whose family single-handedly developed New Brunswick’s baby eel industry has laid out why Ottawa’s proposed new sharing of the fishery with First Nations is unfair and threatens the livelihoods of her employees. Mary Ann Holland says her family built the business from scratch and developed it into a multi-million-dollar industry that employs dozens of people. The federal government’s proposals would discourage other family-run businesses and damage the local economy, she argues. “The industry should not be gutted at the expense of the employees and the families of those who have spent their lives creating and building it,” the Rothesay businesswoman told Brunswick News. “As an industry, we should be asked to contribute to reconciliation and, when asked, we have. It... <\/p>\n