Madam Chair, this is from Peter Krahn, a selective fishing expert.
For the 12 years since the sport fishing community has been petitioning DFO to do a similar study of a selective fishing technique called bar rigs, which is virtually guaranteed not to intercept the endangered sockeye, why has the minister and DFO refused to do the required study and put the sport fishing community and the $1.5 billion in economic benefits and jobs in such peril when such a study would only cost about $225,000 and all the sports angers' time would be voluntary?