Who's the Best of the Best?

Who are the best of the best amongst the high liners working on the water in any number of industries from fishing to oil and gas to cargo to search and rescue in Newfoundland and Labrador?

Who are the real leaders in the ocean resources processing field?

Who are the true industry builders worthy of recognition?

These are questions that will be answered in St. John’s this November when The Navigator and Master Promotions Ltd. inducts the newest members into the Atlantic Canada Marine Industries Hall of Fame.

But we need YOUR Nominations to make that happen. Everybody working in any industry related to our ocean almost certainly knows someone worthy of being recognized with a lasting tribute as a member of the Hall of Fame.

If you know someone who should be nominated, simply click HERE or HERE and let us know!

The Hall will seek to pay a lasting and permanent tribute to those who have made or are making valuable contributions in one of three Hall of Fame categories: Mariner, Processor and Builder in ANY marine field.

The Mariner category will recognize individuals who have made a significant contribution at sea in any marine field — this could include anyone from a captain or crewmember on anything from fishing boats to cargo ships to oil tankers to Coast Guard and all points in between. Quite simply, if you currently work or have worked at sea, then you are eligible to be inducted in the Hall of Fame as a Mariner.

The Processor category will recognize individuals involved in the business of processing/developing marine products from fish and seafood to oil and gas, including everyone from frontline workers right up to company owners.

And finally, the Builder category will seek to recognize those individuals who have made significant contributions to any of Atlantic Canada’s marine industries without having necessarily directly participated in them (including, but not limited to, industry advocates, organizers, service providers, marine builders, business people, media, government, etc.)

Deadline for nominations is October 31, 2012.

Once nominations have been received, a panel of independent judges will review the nominations and the inductees will be chosen.

The first hall of fame inductions will be held during the North Atlantic Fish and Workboat Show, which will take place in St. John’s, NL, from Nov. 29 – Dec. 1.

Further inductions for nominees in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI and other Atlantic Canadian regions will take place during Atlantic Canada’s other two premier marine shows: The Eastern Canadian Fisheries Expo in Yarmouth, NS in February 2013 and the Fish Canada/Workboat Canada show in Moncton, NB in February 2014.

You will be able to visit the Atlantic Canada Marine Hall of Fame display at each of the three main commercial marine shows.

I should also note that the Hall of Fame will replace the old Industry Achievement awards that were traditionally presented at past marine shows.

The people who were recognized with industry achievement awards will be automatically inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Those people include: Mark Small, Vernon Petten and Wilfred Bartlett from Newfoundland (2008); Ashton Spinney, Henry Surrette and Denny Morrow of Nova Scotia (2009); Frank McLaughin and Delam Doucette of New Brunswick and Doug Fraser of PERI (2010); Don best, Gerard Chidley and Jack Troake of Newfoundland (2010); Dick Stewart, Hubert Saulnier, and Jean Guy d’Entremont of Nova Scotia (2011); Jim Bateman and Paul-Aimé Mallet of New Brunswick, and Francis Morrissey, Norman Peters, and Robert “Bobby” MacInnis of PEI.