The Nain Fish plant started taking char that the fishermen landed last Monday.
Deidi Kohlmeister is the Office Supervisor for the fish plant.
She says to date a total of 847 lbs of char has been landed, there are now three commercial char fishermen.
Kohlmeister says the first catch of scallops was also landed from the Torngat 1 scallop boat yesterday, where a total of 2,039 lbs of green and 31 lbs of shucked scallops was landed.
She says there are 19 employees working, some whose processing char and some shuckers.
The fish plant also started smoking char, and right now they’re waiting for the prices before they start selling some locally or elsewhere and it goes same for the scallop.
Meanwhile, the Makkovik fish plant is busy with the snow crab landed.
Angel Chaulk is the Clerk.
She says a total of 220,947 lbs of crab is landed and processed to date.
Chaulk says they have 27 employees, including 7 summer students.
Theres 5 active crab boats and to now 5 other boats have finished.