{"id":7207,"date":"2024-05-24T10:47:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T13:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/?p=7207"},"modified":"2024-05-24T10:54:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T13:54:22","slug":"awards-of-excellence-in-seafood-sportfishing-for-presented-for-exceptional-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/awards-of-excellence-in-seafood-sportfishing-for-presented-for-exceptional-achievement\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards of Excellence in Seafood, Sportfishing Presented for Exceptional Achievement."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Kent Smith has recognized exceptional achievement in the seafood and sportfishing sectors with the Minister\u2019s Awards of Excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe people and businesses receiving these awards are leaders in our industries and communities across Nova Scotia,\u201d said Minister Smith. \u201cI thank them for their outstanding work and commitment to building a strong foundation for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recipients of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister\u2019s Awards of Excellence are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sportfish Conservation Award \u2013 Nova Scotia Salmon Association<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sportfish Development Award \u2013 Collaborative Environmental Planning Initiative (Bras d\u2019Or Lake region)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sustainability Award \u2013 Hamilton\u2019s Fish Farm (Roland Hamilton, founder and CEO)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Quality Focus Award \u2013 Abriel Fisheries Company (Janet Abriel, Business Administrator)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Innovation Development Award \u2013 Deep Cove Aqua Farms (Andy Schnare, President)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lifetime Achievement Award \u2013 Adlai Cunningham, Director, Sea Star Seafoods Ltd.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Quotes:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt means a lot to be recognized for something I have been so passionate about all my life. It\u2019s been great to participate in an industry from the fishery right on up through the processing sector. It has meant so much to me in so many ways, not the least of which has been the many fine people I have met along the way.\u201d<br><em>\u2014 Adlai Cunningham, recipient, Lifetime Achievement Award; Director, Sea Star Seafoods Ltd.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Quick Facts:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>in 2023, Nova Scotia seafood exports were valued at about $2.5 billion, and the industry directly employed almost 20,000 people in rural and coastal communities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the awards were presented at ceremonies earlier this month<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Additional Resources:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fisheries and Aquaculture on X (formerly Twitter):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSFisheries\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSFisheries<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source : Provincial Release <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Kent Smith has recognized exceptional achievement in the seafood and sportfishing sectors with the Minister\u2019s Awards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-general","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7210,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions\/7210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}