This paper examines the 1990s fisheries crisis in Newfoundland and Labrador from the point of view of a feminist researcher, activist and teacher involved in that crisis. The formation and work of the Newfoundland and Labrador Women’s FishNet, a voluntary group of feminists of which the author was a founding member, provided her with the sisterhood and organizational and strategic resources she needed to move beyond this impasse. FishNet activities provide the focus for the second section of the paper. The author emphasizes the ways FishNet helped to empower its members and women from fishery communities but closes with a discussion of some of the factors that contributed to its collapse. In the final section, the author examines some of the lessons she has learned from her experience as a researcher, teacher and activist working on feminist fisheries issues within Newfoundland and Labrador during the fisheries crisis.