Evidence of meeting #7 for Fisheries and Oceans in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was habitat.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Siddika Mithani  Assistant Deputy Minister, Ecosystems and Oceans Science, Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Claire Dansereau  Deputy Minister, Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Marc GrĂ©goire  Commissioner, Canadian Coast Guard, Department of Fisheries and Oceans
David Balfour  Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Ecosystems and Fisheries Management, Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Kevin Stringer  Assistant Deputy Minister, Program Policy, Department of Fisheries and Oceans
David Bevan  Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Fisheries and Oceans

5:25 p.m.

Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Fisheries and Oceans

David Bevan

Certainly, the commercial fishery was ratcheted down and virtually shut down over the last number of years.

With respect to Greenland, a number of years ago there was an agreement by them to move to a subsistence fishery and not to have a commercial fishery. Some groups, the salmon conservation groups, actually paid for that to happen, which creates a desire to keep the process going. There's always an opportunity to see what you can get in negotiations by moving to claim that you're going to reopen a commercial fishery.

We don't compensate countries, obviously, for that kind of thing. What we are going to do is to continue through NASCO, the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization, to push for Greenland to live up to its international responsibilities to conserve Atlantic salmon in its home waters. Those are our salmon from Canada.

5:30 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rodney Weston

Thank you very much.

On behalf of the committee, I want to say thank you very much for taking the time to be here with us today and to answer our questions. It certainly is appreciated, and I'm sure we'll have you back again as well.

Thank you very much.

5:30 p.m.

Deputy Minister, Department of Fisheries and Oceans

Claire Dansereau

Well, on our behalf, I want to thank you for having us here and listening to us.

5:30 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rodney Weston

Thank you.

The meeting is adjourned.