Fishermen in Newfoundland and Labrador may have acquired a reputation of getting riled up and rowdy when things aren’t going their way: crashing news conferences, for instance, or blocking the doors to Confederation Building in St. John’s.
Carl Hedderson and the handful of harvesters left on the northern tip of Newfoundland say they are not those kind of fishermen.
“Nobody hears us because I guess we're not complaining enough,” says Hedderson.
When the idea of driving 12 hours to stage a protest in St. John’s crosses his mind, Hedderson, 63, shakes his head — “nobody would even know we were there.”
