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WharfsideIn This IssueThe New Marine HarvestFlexible Benets Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
A Healthy Commitment to Aquaculture . . . . 2
Ronita Prasad: From one IslandParadise to Another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Duck! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Doctor Islet Wins Sterling Cup
with a 1.197 EFCR!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Thanks or the Quarter Century Lex! .. . . . . 4
Paws or a Cause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Career EXPO 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Welcome Back, Big Tree Creek andDalrymple hatcheries! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Port Hardy Processing’s uture sh grader? . 5
Trevor Linden is welcomed in Quatsino . . . . 5
Fun times at 12th AnnualBC Aquaculture Gol Tourney! . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Over $15,000 Raisedor Charity – YahHoo! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
October 2012
CANADA
Please email comments, articles and ideasto Ian Roberts, Communications Manager
at ian.roberts@marineharvest.com
Comments aboutthis Newsletter?
Did you Know?A duck’s quack never echoes,
and no one knows why.
Trivia time!What is the world’s largest employer?
Answer on Page 4
In August, I told
you that change
was coming to our
benet program.
Today, I can tell you
more.Our new Flexible
Benets Program was designed to refect the
act that we are all dierent and have unique
benet needs. Our new program will provide
you with some fexibility to choose the coverage
that best meets your needs, your amily’s needs,
as well as your budget. In developing our new
Flexible Benets Program, we reviewed our
program against the benets programs oered
by our competitors, either in the local area or in
the same industry. Our new Flexible Benets
Program:
• Is competitive in the market place,
• Is cost-eective and nancially sustainable
over the long term,
• Forms an important part o your total
rewards package, and
• Allows you to tailor your benets coverage
to t your own and your amily’s needs.
Our new Flexible Benets Program was built orus, by us!
One question that I have been asked a number
o times is “Will going to Sun Lie reduce
my benets that I have today”. The easiest
answer to that is maybe, but it will be your
choice. Under our new Flexible Benets
Program, everyone will receive the same
Company-paid core benets which provide
comprehensive coverage including Employee
Basic Lie Insurance, Employee Basic AD&D
Insurance, Short Term Disability Insurance an
Best Doctors Services. Long Term Disability
Insurance is also part o the core benets;
however, you pay the premium or this coveragso that any disability benets you may receive
will not be subject to income tax. This is not a
change as you have always paid this premium
You will have three options (Bronze, Silver and
Gold) to choose rom or your Extended Healt
Care and Dental benets. This Silver option is
essentially the plan that you have today. Bronz
gives you less benets and more credits, Gold
provides signicant increases to prescription
eyewear and orthodontics, but you will pay ex
or this plan. You will also have the opportuni
to purchase additional optional coverage
(Optional Lie Insurance and Optional AD&D
Insurance) or yoursel and your amily. The
Company will provide you with fex credits to
help pay or these benets. .
Now you will see (i you look closely enough a
the plan) that there are some dierences that a
designed to help us control our costs. Which i
the long run help us to ensure that the benet
plan is sustainable.1. There will be a limit on the dispensing
charge that a pharmacy can charge. At time
o writing this we were nalizing the amoun
(est. $11.00) which is around the typical rat
charged in Campbell River.
2. Requirement to go to generic prescriptio
drugs rst. Example; Today a doctor can
The New Marine HarvestFlexible Benets Program
By Dean Dobrinsky,Human Resources Director
continued on pag
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By Ian Roberts
Every armer knows the key to success is
keeping your animal happy and healthy.
So it’s comorting or sh armers to know
that millions o dollars are being invested
into research and development or that very
purpose.
Novartis Animal Health Aqua business, a
business unit o Novartis Animal Health,is doing its part to help ensure that as
aquaculture grows worldwide, it helps protect
the health o arm-raised seaood.
Compared to terrestrial animal arming and
companion animals (pets), the investment
into bioscience or aquaculture species has
been relatively small. But as aquaculture
continues to grow, so does the investment
into understanding the challenges and
solutions or sh health.
This commitment was recently showcased at
an open house at Novartis’s expanded 20,000
square oot R&D acility in Victoria, Prince
Edward Island.
“The Novartis Animal Health Aqua business
is ortunate to be able to draw rom the
critical capacity o both animal and human
health divisions and advance aqua research
ar beyond what could normally be achieved,”
Jason Cleaversmith, Head o Novartis Aqua
Health, PEI, explained at the open house in
July. “The assistance o our larger company
has helped advance our knowledge that not
only provides eective aqua health products
today, but will continue to underpin new
products and technologies or the uture.”
This company has been a leader in the
development o what we humans may
take or granted, but sh certainly do not
– vaccines. Vaccines are a success story or
aquaculture and Novartis Animal Health
continues to lead the way in developing this
“highly eective preventive medicine”.
In act, salmon armers in British Columbia
(BC) are very aware o the benet o vaccines.
Ater the introduction o eective vaccinesin the 1990s, sh health challenges have been
drastically reduced. Curative medicine use
has also decreased signicantly – rom 500
grams/tonne o salmon 15 years ago to less
than 50 grams today.
Ater a naturally occurring sh virus known
as Inectious Hematopoietic Necrosis (IHN)
had negatively aected a number o salmon
arms in the mid 1990s and again in the early
2000s, Novartis responded quickly with anovel vaccine that helps provide arm-raised
Atlantic salmon with protection. The APEX-
IHN® vaccine became available to salmon
armers in 2005 and Marine Harvest Canada
was the rst company to vaccinate 100% o
its sh.
In addition, Novartis Animal Health has
developed new sh health management
tools such as “microdose” ormulations
and “nucleic acid” technology that urther
improve vaccine saety and eectiveness o
sh.
Given the importance o aquaculture to me
global demand or seaood and also reduce
shing pressure on wild sh stocks, it’s gooto know that Novartis Animal Health is
right there helping aquaculture continue its
healthy growth.
2
A Healthy Commitment to Aquaculture
Novartis Animal Health, Victoria, PEI
prescribe “Advil” (as an example), and the
pharmacist will ll the prescription with
“Advil” at $0.50/pill. On the new plan,
ibuproen is the generic o Advil, so thepharmacist will ll the prescription with
ibuproen at $0.11/pill. You get the same
drug at a much lower cost to the plan.
We have also improved certain areas:
Short Term Disability plan to provide or
75% o your base wage or 17 weeks, an
improvement rom 60%.
We have also improved the prescription
eyewear levels.
Increases or various accidental death and
dismemberment situations (which we
hopeully never have to deal with).
In the coming weeks, we will be providing you
with very specic details about the plan and
the signup dates. Hopeully, once you get a
chance to review the plan oerings you will be
as excited about this new benet plan as I am
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By Gina Forsyth
More than 5,000 miles rom her native
island country o Fiji, Ronita Prasad has
built a ullling lie on another island. As an
employee o the Port Hardy Processing Plant
on northern Vancouver Island or a decade,
Ronita enjoys a variety o duties, including
working the processing line and maintaining
the plant’s strict cleanliness standards.
“I love my job,” said Ronita. Her coworkers
are a large part o why Ronita enjoys her
work so much. She recalls the February
2003 re at the processing plant and how
everybody worked together to get the plantup and running again. “The teamwork
was awesome”. She also appreciates the
training opportunities at the plant, including
the recent Brain Sae saety initiative and
learning more about grading sh.
Since 2010, Ronita has volunteered with the
Canadian Cancer Society’s local Relay or
Lie, to help raise money to nd a cure or
cancer. “I went door to door and beore I
knew it, it was 10 o’clock at night!” Ronita’s
determination certainly paid o. When the
results were in, she had raised $1,741 and
landed in the Top 3 undraisers or Port
Hardy.
Ronita and her amily – made up o our
brothers and one sister - moved to Vancouvwhen she was a baby. During her teens,
Ronita lived in northern Caliornia, near
San Francisco, completing high school in
San Mateo. She made the move to Vancouve
Island in 1987 ater marrying Ron, who
manages the Esso station in Port Hardy. Th
have two sons, aged 16 and 22.
Marine Harvest Canada (MHC) was the
proud title sponsor again this year or
the 13th Annual Ducks Unlimited Gol
Tournament held in September at Crown Isle
Resort in Comox.
Despite the MHC oursome taking home top
honours (again) this year, event organizer
Barry McCombe says they are welcome back
next year! Fabian McCarty also won themen’s longest drive ater hitting a monster
290 yard drive into the wind.
“As always the donations made to us
by Marine Harvest are so very much
appreciated, the monies going towards the
maintenance o preservation o wetlands or
our wildlie throughout Vancouver Island,”
McCombe says.
Marine Harvest barbequed salmon burger
were a big hit at the annual Paws or a Cau
event held in Campbell River in support o
the BC SPCA. MHC oered to double every
donation or each salmon burger which
resulted in a total o about $1200 or the SP
Ronita Prasad: From one Island Paradise to Another
Duck! Paws or a Cause
Ronita Prasad
Fabian McCarty, Joel McGee, Dave Guhl and Gerry Burry are
congratulated by Greg Sawchuck, Chairman o the Ducks
Unlimited Comox Valley Chapter, or their 1st place fnish
Dave Ashcrot (centre let) and Isaac Desprez teamed up wiSPCA volunteers Sheila (let) and Pam in support o our ur
riends at the Paws or a Cause event
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It’s rare nowadays or anyone to work at the
same career and with the same company or
a decade, let alone a quarter o a century.
But or the past 25 years, Alexis Gagne has
committed every working hour to a career
that ocused on sh processing and logistics.
Lex was rst hired by Dale Blackburn at Sea
Farm Canada (eventually becoming Marine
Harvest Canada) in January 1987 as a part-
time receptionist/secretary/bookkeeper, but
“I never did work part-time,” Lex says with
a chuckle.
Back in 1987, Dalrymple hatchery was just
being built and Soderman Cove arm site
was already stocked with salmon. “When
Soderman sh were ready or harvest, Iollowed them to Great Northern Processing
in North Vancouver where they were
processed,” Lex recalls, “and that was the
beginning o my career in processing and
logistics.”
As part o the team that developed the
“Sterling” salmon brand, Lex is proud o
the accomplishments made in producing
a brand name that is known or its high
standards. She also saw the start o thelleting program which initially started up
at Aquatec Seaoods in Comox. From Great
Northern, to Walcan, to Brown’s Bay, to
Englewood and now Port Hardy Processin
Plant.
“Wow, how things have changed!” Lex
refects.
Lex recalls many great people who mentor
her along the way, including Blackburn andJohn Lawrie.
“I’ve really enjoyed all the people I’ve met
and worked with along the way and the go
times that we’ve shared,” Lex says, proudly
think that is what I will miss most o all, th
people.”
So what does retirement look like or Lex?
Simple, she says. Grandkids, gardening and
“doing all those things I never got done
while working!”
4Answer:
United States Department o Deense—as o August
Thanks or the Quarter Century Lex!
Friends o Lex gathered in September to celebrate her retirement
Congratulations to the sta at Doctor Islet or achieving the
lowest EFCR (economical eed conversion ratio) o the 2009 S0 /
2010 S1 year class.
It has been eight years since a Broughton area arm site has won
the cup, but Gordon Bach and his crew pulled it o this year!
The area aims to keep it now that they have it, but there will be
some sti competition out there or the next win!
Doctor Islet Wins SterlingCup with a 1.197 EFCR!
L-R: Dave Emmerson, Len Wells (crouching down), Teddy Scheck,
Gordon Bach, and Tom Teschuk. Missing from photo is Phil McLellan.
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Welcome Back,Big Tree Creek andDalrymple hatcheries
Port Hardy
Processing’suture sh grader?
Marine Harvest is hosting
an exhibit at the NorthIsland Career Expo 2012on October 26th – so dropby and say ‘hello’! It’s beingheld rom 9-5 at the PortHardy Civic Centre.
Just like a amous rap star who can’t decid
on a name (P Daddy, Diddy, Doody?), Big T
Creek and Dalrymple hatcheries have now
settled on the original branding. The new
sign at Big Tree Creek hatchery was raisedcelebration by sta in September.
Welcome, Carter Steven Boguski-Grant, born
July 7th, 2012 6lbs 1oz to proud parents
Kadeem Boguski-Grant and Amber Wright
and very proud grandparents Gary Boguski
and Dev Grant.
Fun times at 12th Annual BCAquaculture Gol Tourney!
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Over $15,000 Raised or Charity – YahHoo!The Marine Harvest barbeque salmon event
trailer was a real hit this summer. It was active
at events in the Comox Valley, Campbell River,
Port Hardy and Port McNeill and helped raise
over $15,000 or many worthy charities and
societies.
Much deserving thanks to all the hard-
working MHC sta who volunteered their
time to set up, cook and/or serve and a very
special thanks to each o the thousands o
happy customers who enjoyed every yumm
bite and kindly donated to each worthy cau
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