With no more cold storage in Prince Rupert, less Rupertites were working this herring season.
Since the closure of J.S. McMillan Fisheries in 2011 there hasn't been a place to store herring. Oceanfish had a cold storage facility operating last year, however it was closed after the herring season last year.
Frozen herring is shipped out of Prince Rupert to the Lower Mainland by trucks for processing.
The full quota in the Prince Rupert has already been caught, equalling 800 tonnes from seiners, and 1,500 tonnes from gilnetters.
"It's the same operation we ran last year. We'd like to be able to process herring in Prince Rupert but there's no place to store it," Rob Morely, spokesman for Canfisco, said.
Joy Thorkelson, representative with the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, said approximately 70 people worked this season, about half the amount of people who worked last season.