Fisheries committee  Yes, we did.

Fisheries committee  I will try, but just before I answer the question directly I should state that in 1997 when this decision was made and this arrangement was discussed throughout the industry, I was representing the inshore processors in Newfoundland and Labrador. I was advocating for the new entr

Fisheries committee  We can forward that.

Fisheries committee  Very much so; in fact the press release refers to adjacency in the context of allocating the increase. Within that the priority would be to aboriginals and less-than-65-foot licence holders who were adjacent to the resource. So even those offshore vessels that were adjacent to th

Fisheries committee  In 2012, a report from Ernst and Young, an independent review that was commissioned a year before by Minister Ashfield, gave a very good history of this. A page and a half in the report deals with this question. It was well known, without the term “LIFO” being used, that the Mi

Fisheries committee  If I had a moment I could find the quote, but Minister Hearn specifically announced that it was the purpose of.... First of all, it was the fishermen's union that requested the term “temporary” be regularized into the regular licence. Minister Hearn announced that the purpose of

Fisheries committee  Mr. MacAulay, I might just add one other thing. In 2010, before the shrimp cuts started happening, there was a task force in Newfoundland and Labrador on the inshore sector, which concluded that there was overcapacity in fish plants by 50%. They needed a 50% reduction to be viab

Fisheries committee  Well, I think it's unfortunate that we're going to see job loss in Newfoundland and Labrador. Wherever it's going to be, it's inevitable that it will come.

Fisheries committee  This population bloom took place because of nature. The contraction took place not because of fishing.

Fisheries committee  In future, however, how hard we fish it will make a difference. In that respect, you need the relationship between the effect of how hard you fish it and the future trajectory. That's what we need the modelling to be about.

Fisheries committee  Well, it's speculation—

Fisheries committee  —but the speculation is that it will return more toward what we experienced in the pre-bloom period. As to how stable it was, we don't know, because our current research vessel survey index only started in the mid-1990s. We don't have it for the 1980s and the 1970s, when there wa

Fisheries committee  The largest single fishing area, which brought this committee into looking at this topic, had reached 85,000 tonnes in area 6. It's currently at 48,000 tonnes, I believe. It started in the pre-bloom period at about 10,000 tonnes.

Fisheries committee  Yes, but even at 10,000 tonnes, this still would be Canada's largest shrimp area. It has gone from large to extremely large, and it's shrinking back to still larger than most other areas.

Fisheries committee  The scientists couldn't detect any impact of fishing on the increase. They just couldn't find it in the noise, the levels were so low. They're not so sure about the way down, but they're still not able to detect what that impact could be. We're still setting the total allowable