The following is excerpted from a deposition given by Icewater Seafoods' Alberto Wareham to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans on the state of the Northern cod stock. Icewater Seafoods mailed the statement to IntraFish.

Icewater Seafoods Inc. is a family owned business with an extensive history in the Newfoundland cod fishery which started seven generations ago when my ancestors came to Newfoundland from Dorset, England. Icewater was formed in 2004 by my father, Bruce Wareham, from the former Newfoundland Operations of High Liner Foods Inc.

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