Fisheries committee  I'd like to address the issue. You asked the question about the cost to build a boat, that the fisherman needs to give him the length he needs or the width he needs, and whether it would exceed what he's building today, for example. Whenever I've built boats in the past and had

Fisheries committee  I'd like to address this a bit. The reason there are less accidents is because of the wider boats with the stern extensions. Going back seven or eight years ago, you'd have a 44' 11" that was 18 feet wide. A good portion of the fleet now is fishing offshore. It's been gradually

Fisheries committee  Of all the lobster boats that are out there—the combination lobster boats with a minimum of a less than a five-foot fish hole—I personally can't think of one that wouldn't meet the standards.

Fisheries committee  Yes, the season opens with a gun and a timeframe. There's a lot of pressure on.

Fisheries committee  Twenty years ago, a 44' 11" boat was 16 to 18 feet wide.

Fisheries committee  You can make it square. I thought about taking the tools; it wouldn't work putting the bow in the middle.

Fisheries committee  Nothing's changed, stability-wise. I don't know of any that have rolled over. I don't know if anybody in the back knows of any that have rolled over. They're trying to paint the whole industry with a couple of incidents that go back to the same thing. We have fisheries rules an

Fisheries committee  That's no exaggeration. They've got them; they're 28 and 29 feet wide now. There's no care about the height. That's why they're rolling over. There's no care about the width, but there seems to be a huge issue over the 44' 11".

Fisheries committee  Regarding stability, we don't have a stability problem here. As far as somebody coming down.... Again these are the rules coming from Lloyds of London. They put five or six 45-gallon drums of water up on your boat and one man stands and pulls on your spar with the rope. To this d

Fisheries committee  George's comment almost makes it seem like the commercial that's been on pretty well 25 times an hour in the last six months—that “hands in your pocket” one.

Fisheries committee  Someone made it for this situation, right? I'll go back to the late-1980s, when the cubic number was a huge issue. I wasted three years of my life, along with Harland, who was there also, chasing to Ottawa, thinking we were really going to get something straightened out here. Af

Fisheries committee  I thought I was just coming to a meeting to listen to what was going to take place.

Fisheries committee  When it comes to the stability thing, George has a proposal all done. I'd suggest we let him go through his proposal first.