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Given the number of natural disasters in north America alone recently, in October, BCBusiness asked
Mustel Group to survey provincial businesses on how prepared they are. Of the 203 owners contacted,
"four in 10 think that they do have a plan, but still that leaves six in 10 that have no plans,
formal or informal," notes principal Evi Mustel. Those in the interior, which saw both floods and fires
in 2017, were the most likely to have a strategy for keeping their business operating in an emergency:
62.5 per cent, compared to 26.5 per cent on the island/coast and 40.1 per cent in Metro Vancouver.
How prepared is your business for natural disasters? Do you have:
Although Jim McIsaac, executive director
of the T. Buck Suzuki Environmental
Foundation, referred to Andrew Findlay's
story ("Fish Feud," September) about
B.C.'s salmon „shery as "very balanced,"
he also wants to set the record straight.
Salmon is not the last major West
Coast „shery to resist full implementation
of the individual transferable quota (
ITQ)
system, McIsaac informs us, citing tuna,
crab, prawn and shrimp as other exam-
ples. "Crab has been our largest export by
value „shery for years, and prawn is not
far behind," he writes. "After
three years (2013'2016) of very
warm water along our coast,
and a high demand, the tuna
„shery has also been lucra-
tive for many independent
„shermen."
dECEMBER/JAnuARy 2018 BCBusiness 13 BCBusinEss.CA
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Fishy
A COnTinGEnCy Fund OR ThE
ABiliTy TO BORROw shORT-TERM
duPliCATEs OF dATA And
dOCuMEnTs in A sAFE PlACE
insuRAnCE TO COVER disAsTERs
likEly TO OCCuR in yOuR lOCATiOn
An EVACuATiOn PlAn
A PlAn TO kEEP ThE BusinEss
OPERATinG in An EMERGEnCy
nOnE OF ThE ABOVE
74.9%
71.9%
69.5%
48.8%
41.4%
4.9%
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