N.B. minister delivering food to seiners

SOURIS — New Brunswick Fisheries Minister David Alward is on his way to Souris with a truckload of food Wednesday morning.

Alward filled a truck with groceries in Moncton and is driving to P.E.I. to deliver them to New Brunswick seiners.

Alward says the seiners aren't being served by some of the businesses in Souris and they're low on supplies. Inshore fishermen on P.E.I. have complained that the seiners are damaging both herring and lobster stocks.

He says the seiners have the legal right to fish, and it's not right for grocery stores to refuse service.

The two main grocery stores in Souris are refusing to supply the New Brunswick seiner fleet. The Superstore in Montague, a 20-minute drive away, says it is not preventing the seiners from shopping there.