Less fish, more 4/20 if one local entrepreneur has his way.

Cannabis could be coming to the rescue of a Newfoundland fishing community that’s been without an economic centre since Hurricane Igor laid waste to the area in 2010.

Port Union’s old Ocean Choice International fish plant could soon be used to plant marijuana.

The disused building is in the final stages of a sale to local businessman Daniel Porter, who is planning to turn it into a cannabis growing facility for medicinal and recreational pot.

“This means the world to me,” Porter said.

– Read the entire article at CBC News.