Fisheries committee  I'll finish winging it, and then we'll....

Fisheries committee  The number—industry will give you numbers, it depends on who you're talking to—they've generally landed on, and we'll get this to you, is about $600 million for the value of the industry on the west coast in marine areas. There are about 350,000 licence holders on the west coast.

Fisheries committee  Very quickly, the numbers within the department are indeed rolled up in the fisheries management numbers and much of the science work. The science work on salmon is for all the different groups. In terms of the numbers, first of all, one of the reasons you may see it the way it i

Fisheries committee  That's correct.

Fisheries committee  That is right.

Fisheries committee  I think that the silo issue is ours as well. Everyone has worked, but have we worked together? We thought about working more as a team last year probably. We created a task force bringing together three or four departments, that is to say the Department of Foreign Affairs and Int

Fisheries committee  There are two things in particular that I'd point to--

Fisheries committee  I spoke on some of the framework, the policy we're working on, and all those types of things. The Atlantic Salmon Endowment Fund, which we established--there are now cheques being cut and provided to the group--should provide funds specifically for groups like that to be able to

Fisheries committee  For area 12 crab, the opening was released by a “notice to fisher”. Some of the plans are released by a big announcement and some are done by notice to fisher. What we need to do, obviously, is make sure that when there's a notice to fisher the committee members are aware—or at l

Fisheries committee  Yes, there is also Italy. There is in reality a very small quantity that is sent to Europe, but for us, it is not really a market issue. We believe in fact that they are wrong, and we are trying to deal with that. But it is difficult.

Fisheries committee  That is correct.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  Yes, we have a lot of plans and we can share them with you. I myself went to Germany and Belgium. I met with a group of German parliamentarians to answer their questions. We do this quite often. This year, we spent a lot of time preparing communications material for our missions

Fisheries committee  We've actually done some reallocation within the department in the last year and we'll continue with that in terms of having some people in the department specifically on this issue. We've had managers who work on this. It is a very difficult issue. A communications group is wor

Fisheries committee  Yes. In the Newfoundland region we have 155 FTEs in our conservation and protection unit in terms of enforcement officers. They are largely on the coasts, but we do have arrangements with the Province of Newfoundland on inland fisheries. Jurisdiction for inland fisheries is pr