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...SUFFERING THE MOST? If you look at the living conditions in the barracks and tents, those who suffer most are women and children. Sanitation needs such as bathrooms and toilets-there aren't enough. But when it comes to the work sector, it's farmers and fishermen...
Gloucester's men have been suffering for years as declining stocks and stringent regulations have cut down on their catches. But the fishermen who are staying in port these days are doing so because they cannot get or afford insurance for their boats and because, in most cases, they cannot sail without it. "I don't know what to do," says Favaloro, spreading huge hands scarred by a lifetime of handling nets and lines, and relating how the cost of his insurance has doubled since 1981. "Either I borrow on my house to buy insurance or I leave my boat...
...that he must pay $52,000 for the same coverage he could barely afford last year at $22,000. "There's no way I can pay that and make money," he says. Because the price of fish is based on auction prices at the Boston Fish Pier, he explains, fishermen cannot simply raise their prices to pass along increased costs. Nor can Mark Godfried, 49, meet the cost of coverage for his 50-ft. Stella G. After spending more than $20,000 converting the craft from a side trawler to a more efficient stern trawler, he was told that...
...insurance companies, whom they perceive as greedy and heartless. But many concede that the premium jumps are justified. "In a way," says Joseph Giacalone, 52, whose 74-ft. St. Peter, built in 1927, is one of the oldest boats in the fleet, "I guess you could say that the fishermen, or at least some of them, brought this on themselves...
...Meech, a finger-like lake set in the evergreen-forested hills of Quebec's Gatineau Park, has long been a mecca for canoeists, campers, fishermen and skiers. But it was not the area's scenic beauty that last week drew Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and key members of his Progressive Conservative Cabinet to the government-owned retreat on the lake's snow-covered shore. Faced with Parliament's return from Christmas recess this week and with a host of problems awaiting action, Mulroney and his advisers had driven the half-hour north from Ottawa for an agonizing reappraisal...