Fisheries committee  Yes, I think we actually announced that in the summer.

Fisheries committee  We wouldn't be considering it if we thought there would be an impact. It's our sense that there are some fisheries that don't require that level of attention on a yearly basis. If it turns out that we're wrong...but it would be hard to imagine that we would be wrong on that. Ther

Fisheries committee  And it's not even yearly with salmon; it's pretty much daily during the summer.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the questions. I'll let David answer the grey seals question, because that's a file he is managing. On the question of an aquaculture act, I probably shouldn't say this, but I'm an agnostic. I think we need to make sure, either within the Fisheries Ac

Fisheries committee  There's no question that the ratio has changed. In fact, aquaculture is beyond the wild fishery at this point. We have to remember, though, that in aquaculture we're not just talking about fin fish aquaculture; there's an awful lot of shellfish and molluscs, and all those. There

Fisheries committee  I wouldn't say we're staying behind. We're very alive to the question, shall we say. As you know, it's also a very lucrative industry and we need to ensure that a lot of the development work happens by the industry itself. We have had some funding programs that are cost-shared to

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. Yes, this was an area that was covered at the Cohen commission last week. I think we all have the same desire, and that the desire is to ensure good outcomes for fish and fish production. I have to admit—well, certainly, it's my belief—that the policy

Fisheries committee  That is an area we are exploring. It's an approach that has in fact been utilized even under the current policy. We need to be careful, obviously, to make sure that what we're doing is thinking about the desired outcome. If the desired outcome is a certain species of fish and a

Fisheries committee  You saw me check at the table to see if anybody had an answer, and we don't have an answer.

Fisheries committee  It is an area we're looking at, even for other species, in other parts of B.C. I know that in the central Okanagan, there is some work happening there as well. I'm not sure. I won't pretend to have an answer, but it's an interesting question. So thank you.

Fisheries committee  Some are satisfied. Some are not. Some are concerned, in that they had clearly done a lot of work and were going down a road. But it was a road that we simply couldn't support; we needed to bring it back up a few notches on the planning scale. So we did that and will continue to

Fisheries committee  So far I have not heard. This changes every day, so you may have newer information than I have, but I have not been made aware of any group that has said it didn't want to stay involved.

Fisheries committee  Each of the marine protected areas will be area specific, as we're currently designing them. So the kind of activity to be allowed there will depend on what is being protected.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  That's a very hard question to answer.