Madelimer has rejected the accusations from competitor fish processing plant, Norpro. The latter has accused the Grande-Entree Plant of not respecting its permit conditions for the transformation of crab. Norpro spokesperson explained that because of Madelimer Inc. activities, the supply of crab has been decreasing at the Amherst factory, putting the business in financial difficulty.
The President/Director-General of Madelimer Inc., Jacques Chevarie asserted that the Grande-Entree company purchases its product at the wharves, respecting the limits of the 125 tons fixed on their permit, since the year 2000. This is the same proportion that was allocated to the Archipelago quotas. He also explained that if Madelimer has benefitted from the tax credits, with important breaks for the wage mass, this was because the business knew to develop the production, beyond the traditional fishing season months of May, June and the first week in July, thanks to the importation of the crab from the mainland, since first implemented. Madelimer Inc. has seen an increase in its employee payroll from near one hundred persons in the year 2000 to more than 300 this year, stressed Mr. Chevarie.
Jacques Chevarie concluded his statement by saying that the fishermen who had been supplying the company in 1995 have now moved to other companies, leaving Madelimer with a loss of fish stocks in the range of 50% of it local lobster supply. Nevertheless, the company has transformed some three million pounds of fish stocks per year, from May to July. The imported stocks from the mainland accounts for 80 percent of this volume.
The President/Director-General of Madelimer Inc., Jacques Chevarie asserted that the Grande-Entree company purchases its product at the wharves, respecting the limits of the 125 tons fixed on their permit, since the year 2000. This is the same proportion that was allocated to the Archipelago quotas. He also explained that if Madelimer has benefitted from the tax credits, with important breaks for the wage mass, this was because the business knew to develop the production, beyond the traditional fishing season months of May, June and the first week in July, thanks to the importation of the crab from the mainland, since first implemented. Madelimer Inc. has seen an increase in its employee payroll from near one hundred persons in the year 2000 to more than 300 this year, stressed Mr. Chevarie.
Jacques Chevarie concluded his statement by saying that the fishermen who had been supplying the company in 1995 have now moved to other companies, leaving Madelimer with a loss of fish stocks in the range of 50% of it local lobster supply. Nevertheless, the company has transformed some three million pounds of fish stocks per year, from May to July. The imported stocks from the mainland accounts for 80 percent of this volume.
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