By REBECCA COHOE • MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY GAZETTE • FEBRUARY 28, 2022 “You could say that the linkages between Memorial University and Fishing for Success run as deep as the water just beyond Petty Harbour. The thriving fishing community is home to the social enterprise that teaches traditional fisheries skills while helping participants develop purpose, confidence Read more…
By REBECCA COHOE • MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY GAZZETTE • FEBRUARY 28, 2022 You could say that the linkages between Memorial University and Fishing for Success run as deep as the water just beyond Petty Harbour. The thriving fishing community is home to the social enterprise that teaches traditional fisheries skills while helping participants develop Read more…
By ANNET PAUWELUSSEN • FISHYFEMINISM PODCAST – EPISODE 4 • DECEMBER 20, 2021 In this episode of the fishy feminisms podcast, Kimberly Orren chats with me about the fishing industry in NL, climate change, feminism, and all the amazing community based work she is doing to rethink fishing in more equitable ways. Listen To Read more…
By KATIE BREEN • CBC NEWS • JULY 15, 2021 “A marine fisheries researcher and former Girls Who Fish participant is launching a sister version of the Petty Harbour program in Japan. Girls Who Fish is a year-round, biweekly program that teaches women and girls how to fish and empowers them to consider a career on Read more…
By REBECCA NOLAN • KCBX • AUGUST 19, 2020 Associate Producer Rebekah Nolan explores “Girls Who Fish” a program designed to attract girls and women to become involved in Newfoundland’s commercial fishery. Nolan says, “fishing is the thing that brought the first settlers from England and Ireland about 400 years ago, and it continues to be a Read more…
By JENN THORNHILL VERMA • OCTOBER 08, 2019 About a mile-and-a-half off of Petty Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador, we’re dropping anchor, 26 fathoms deep. The fish finder, an instrument for locating schools of fish, confirms what captains Leo Hearn and Kimberly Orren already know: the cod are plentiful. In their 22-footer, we Read more…
By JENN THORNHILL VERMA • READERS DIGEST CANADA • OCTOBER 16, 2019 Fishing lessons from Petty Harbour Fishing is part of my identity,” says Jasmine Paul, a 31-year-old part-time university student. “And when I wasn’t fishing, I was depressed.” On a Sunday in July, eight women are huddled together inside a wooden Read more…
DREW BROWN • THE INDEPENDENT • JUNE 27, 2019 About a century ago, roughly 80% of Newfoundland’s population was directly or indirectly working in the fishing industry. That figure was 30% on the eve of the 1992 cod moratorium, and by 2014-2015 it was less than 2%. Only about 20% of Read more…
HARRIS CENTRE • JUNE 25, 2019 As a major industry in our province traditionally dominated by men, many challenges still face women in the fishing sector. I n this Yaffle Connects, Kimberly Orren, from Fishing For Success, speaks with Dr. Nicole Power (MUN), Jasmine Paul (Apprentice Fisher), and Crystal Hanlon (Marine Institute) Read more…
NATALIE HAIRE • GUIDE TO THE GOOD • MAY 13, 2019 Last summer, during my Canada summer job with Fishing for Success, I was lucky to have the opportunity to tag along with Kimberly Orren for the Girls Who Fish program. Girls Who Fish is a community program taught by women Read more…
