Fisheries committee  I wasn't around then, and the budget would have been at that figure before most of the harbour authorities in P.E.I. would have come into effect. So it was still small crafts being small crafts.

Fisheries committee  So not the same harbour fatigue because not the same working relationship.

Fisheries committee  Our annual budget is about $700,000, but if I had one recommendation to make to the minister, it would be to start filling the positions in small craft harbours that are not filled. And this is not bricks and mortar, this is bodies. I mean the chiefs who have retired. The brain d

Fisheries committee  Six years.

Fisheries committee  I was connected with the fishermen but not the harbour authority.

Fisheries committee  No, I don't really think that it makes any difference. But perhaps I can make one suggestion as to something that might be done with harbour authorities and through small crafts. We've talked a bit this afternoon about trying to find solutions to problems, trying to find solution

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much, Yes, in fact every piece of stone that is on Prince Edward Island that is any colour but red has been brought in from Nova Scotia, and we use lots of it. We have nothing we can commit on our own there.

Fisheries committee  I like this man.

Fisheries committee  Oh, he meant “for”. We're not sharing that with anybody. That's just ours.

Fisheries committee  Harbour fatigue is and has been a problem for the last number of years. I don't know how these guys do it. I honestly don't. They're trying to fish. They're trying to make a living. If they have to phone an electrician, they can't phone him at 4:30 in the morning when they get up

Fisheries committee  I guess I'll go first. I don't anticipate vessel size affecting those 44 harbour authorities on Prince Edward Island. You have to remember that on top of those 44, we also have those four big harbours that used to be Transport Canada harbours, the deepwater ports, and most of th

Fisheries committee  The fast answer is fifteen.

Fisheries committee  It would be typical of the smaller ones, yes.

Fisheries committee  Yes and no. When it comes to tuna season, yes, probably we are sharing a bigger part of the load because of adjacency to fishing grounds. We do tend to get more of the tuna fleet. We do, North Fraser harbour does, Tignish harbour does, Rustico harbour does—all the North Shore har

Fisheries committee  Our harbour users that call North Lake home pay an annual fee, their annual berthage fee, and they also pay for any land they may have leased the building on, or whatever. Our other main source of revenue is through what we call transient fees. Those boats from Nova Scotia, Quebe