{"id":784453,"date":"2026-05-09T14:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/784453\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T14:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:52:15","slug":"port-de-grave-gains-vital-new-waterfront-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/784453\/","title":{"rendered":"Port de Grave Gains Vital New Waterfront Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mp-joanne-thompson-paul-connors-port-de-grave-small-craft-harbours-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Port de Grave Gains Vital New Waterfront Hub\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Submitted)<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0wharf at\u00a0Ship Cove in\u00a0Port de Grave is getting a major facelift.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly $1-billion was allocated in the spring economic update for the federal government\u2019s Small Craft Harbours program over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson was in Conception Bay North\u00a0yesterday to announce funding for <a href=\"https:\/\/pdgphs.com\/ship-cove\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ship Cove.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mp-joanne-thompson-paul-connors-port-de-grave-small-craft-harbours.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-298619\" class=\"size-full wp-image-298619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mp-joanne-thompson-paul-connors-port-de-grave-small-craft-harbours.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-298619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Submitted)<\/p>\n<p>Port de Grave is one of the province\u2019s busiest fishing communities.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Barry of the Barry Group says the current wharf was condemned several years ago, meaning boats can\u2019t tie up and unload there. That makes the offloading of catch much more complex. He says the wharf has been non-existent for several years, and there\u2019s no space for them to work. \u201cSo this is a big deal for everybody that fishes out of this area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Submitted) The\u00a0wharf at\u00a0Ship Cove in\u00a0Port de Grave is getting a major facelift. Nearly $1-billion was allocated in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":784454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-784453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116545189203406510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}