Fisheries committee  Yes, it's the way that they communicate through the region on different management plans.

Fisheries committee  They establish the process in which the advisory board will communicate to the department. I'll be honest. With crab, we have asked for a different multi-sectoral process for the last five years running. I can guarantee what the next crab industry meeting will be. They'll be as

Fisheries committee  The boards would be licence-holders for the most part. They are fishermen less and less. They used to be almost all active fishermen. Now that active fishermen are less and less licence-holders, they are more and more non-fishermen.

Fisheries committee  I had a meeting with the minister and the region a couple of weeks ago. We asked to sit down with the minister and the Pacific region to talk about how that would play out. We were told we could talk about that after these recommendations come out, so it's the cart before the hor

Fisheries committee  I think that, in its testimony on January 30, the department named the reason as being more vessels on the water, so whatever you make of that. I don't think it's a downside at all.

Fisheries committee  The unmarrying of licences, yes. I'm just saying that, in its testimony on January 30, the department did refer to it.

Fisheries committee  That depends on how much share of the market the processor has, so say, Canadian fish and salmon is going to be significantly higher than for a processor that doesn't have that large control of the market, where they're not controlling the cost.

Fisheries committee  It depends on year to year. It could be somewhere around 8%, but then you also have the valuation of that quota going up quite rapidly, until the last year or two.

Fisheries committee  If you were to refer to it as an asset and that asset being evaluated every year, I would say the ROA would be somewhere around the 8%.

Fisheries committee  I guess the seven years comes out of the fact that Newfoundland did it like that. To be honest, it's born out of a little cynicism from my entire life dealing with the region. If you don't give them some pretty hard direction, they're just going to talk about doing it. That's whe

Fisheries committee  Not to be rude, but I'd put forward an idea that could withstand any political view, that I think we can all agree on and that could be unanimous. Hopefully, we'd have a better chance of gaining traction.

Fisheries committee  Yes, I'll give it a go. I think the two fellows you had earlier are quite a bit more experienced groundfish fishermen than we are. You have all these small choke species. For yelloweye, for instance, you may only have 130 pounds of it coast-wide for 15,000 pounds of halibut, an

Fisheries committee  There are other ways to guarantee supply of product than just owning the resource. Any retailer in the world does that. You could do it through better prices, through better service, all sorts of ways other than just owning it. We see that in other fisheries like crab. We have ov

Fisheries committee  I sit as a director on the B.C. Crab Fisherman Association. I've been a proxy rep for the crab advisory for five years. The principle of owning a licence to have a vested interest worked very well in the beginning; it has just evolved poorly as fewer and fewer fishermen are licen

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to be here. I would like to begin by thanking the committee for giving me the honour of speaking here and for taking on this very important study. I am here with many other young harvesters who represent the future of our industry. We're re