Fisheries committee  In other resource industries, it's not acceptable to reallocate without compensating the people who presently use the resource.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Keddy, may I comment, please, very quickly? Just one bizarre outcome of sockeye equivalents is that this year, because in the north they did fairly well—they did something last year—and we're all lumped in together, sockeye are going to be taken away from gulf trollers in th

Fisheries committee  There was a report a number of years ago that DFO commissioned, the ARA consultants' report. It postulated that a sport-caught fish was basically valued based on the spinoff effects of the sport-caught fish, which included every outboard and every set of oarlocks that were sold i

Fisheries committee  Mr. Cummins, there's a good possibility that there won't even be a commercial fishery at a 20% exploitation rate.

Fisheries committee  There will be several of the following years where we won't have any run that's commercially exploitable, so this is a run that we need to make some money on if we're going to have enough money to stay in the business.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Keddy, may I comment on this, too? I'd like to point out that the halibut fishery has also had a problem with the sport catch increasing at its expense, and there's been a 12% cap put on the sport catch of halibut. The same lodges that target spring salmon on the west coast

Fisheries committee  No, I'll participate by taking questions, but I'll leave that as our statement.

Fisheries committee  I'll just finish what John was saying by pointing out that the study that has not been translated yet and has just been submitted is called “Allocation within Commercial Fisheries in Canada” and is on Pacific herring, salmon, and groundfish. This paper, prepared and presented by