TORONTO — The Toronto-based Canadian Iceberg Water Corp. has finally found a home for its production facility in Port Union, N.L., according to the province’s Telegram newspaper.

After a 15-year search for a property with a deep, protected harbour and sparse housing, the bottling company’s new building will be located at Port Union’s old Coaker retail store.

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Just as weeks of debate over the price of this season’s crab dies down in Newfoundland, comes news about shrimp pricing from St. John’s standing fish price-setting panel, which predicts a bad year for the industry.

At $0.48 per pound, the newly announced price is roughly three cents higher than last year. It won’t likely be enough to offset the “worst economic recession since the 1920s,” according to the three-member panel, which gave a reality check in its report, stating, “The harsh realities of the current situation will likely lead to lost fishing enterprises and the closure of some processing facilities in 2010.”

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador crab fishermen need not worry about their catch’s high price this season, according to a CBC News report citing a U.S. seafood analyst who predicts market prices will drop.

At $1.35 per pound, crab fishermen have already protested the government-imposed price that many worry is too high. "If you look back at the last 10 or 12 years in the crab fishery, every year the price at the end of May is lower in the market than it is at the beginning of May or the end of April," John Sackton, who publishes seafood.com from Massachusetts, told the CBC. "As you crank up the volume in the fishery and there's a pressure to sell crab ... the prices go down."

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — As the crisis over the price of fresh-caught crab continues to boil, Newfoundland crab fishermen took matters into their own hands, yesterday, by illegally selling crab outside the provincial legislature.

According to a story in Newfoundland's Telegram, the fishermen descended on the parking lot in front of the Confederation Building on Monday to protest the stalemate between harvesters, producers and the government over the price of crab.