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Joel and Melissa Collier had just finished harvesting scallops for the season when the pandemic hit and global seafood markets crashed.
As Melissa recalls in an episode of
Social FISHtancing, a podcast focusing on how fishers in Canada and the United States have been affected by the pandemic, scrambling to find buyers for their scallops during the early days of COVID-19 was “terrifying.”
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Sequestering their catch indefinitely in cold storage would come at a cost to the Courtenay, B.C. family; letting it go to waste was unimaginable. “That’s a fisherman’s nightmare,” she said. “I would have rather left it in the water than put it to waste any day.”
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