Fisheries committee  The Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

Fisheries committee  We have none whatsoever, except we can advise, and we do.

Fisheries committee  The other issue is reallocation without compensation. If you're going to take these stocks and give them to the sports people, to the natives, to anybody, and that's what you're determined to do, we disagree with it. But the least you can do is compensate us and let us have fair

Fisheries committee  No, the Pacific Salmon Commission does the testing on the DNA for sockeye.

Fisheries committee  Or we end up not being allowed to fish.

Fisheries committee  No, that's not correct. The recreational fishery is, in theory, held to 5% of the sockeye catch. In fact, they went over that last year because they're a growing group of people. They are shut down if we are shut down, usually. Last year was the first year I saw them open when we

Fisheries committee  Having said all that, we don't have a problem with the commercial sport industry staying in business; we don't have a problem at all. Assign them a share, hold them accountable, and count the fish. We'll all live together.

Fisheries committee  There are some bands that fish responsibly and there are other bands that don't, and they aren't particularly interested in having a dialogue with us. They think all the fish belong to them, and that's how they operate. But there are lots of natives, as I said, in the commercial

Fisheries committee  About 12 or 14 years ago there was a gentleman by the name of Kelleher who was given the task of sorting out allocation; he brought down the Kelleher report. That's basically what was recommended in that report. It's basically how the allocation has happened since that period of

Fisheries committee  Well, they do have native validators who have been hired by the DFO. But in the Williams inquiry, it became very apparent that that figure is many times what is put as their catch.

Fisheries committee  That is correct.

Fisheries committee  You have a pie of a total number of allowable catch, and in that pie there are a number of user groups. What we're proposing is that each user group be assigned a fixed percentage of that pie, and it raises and drops from year to year, depending on the size of the run. Within tha

Fisheries committee  I think there are two reasons. The first reason is cost, and they say they don't have very much money and, gosh gee whiz, the commercial fishermen pay for their own monitoring, so it doesn't cost them to monitor the commercial fleet. You've probably seen on TV what happens when t

Fisheries committee  That is correct.

Fisheries committee  We will be barely able to survive, if we can survive, and we certainly won't be able to take 100,000 fish and put them back into Cultus Lake.