Fisheries committee  Right.

Fisheries committee  For the first two weeks of every March in the last number of years, DFO has added quota. You can set your watch by it.

Fisheries committee  If you go to the department's website and you look up spawn-on-kelp, you'll see there's a spawn-on-kelp marketing study. Numerous studies have been on this website for a number of years. I'll refer to 2006; they issued roe-on-kelp quota even though it says right on their website

Fisheries committee  In the original, from the research I've done, which we can't use here for the simple reason that we'd be here all day, the quota was 16,000 pounds. Heiltsuk were issued one licence for 16,000 pounds. They had a retirement of six gillnet licences, of which they retired three for a

Fisheries committee  I can explain that in two parts. In 1999 what happened was that the Marshall decision came out, and on the east coast they decided that they were going to buy back the licences. In British Columbia, Anderson said he couldn't afford to buy the licences back, so he issued licences

Fisheries committee  Yes, and it's continuing.

Fisheries committee  DFO has been using roe-on-kelp as a currency since the Gladstone decision. We are the currency to settle land claims. If you look at it, David Anderson made a speech in the House of Commons that he would not buy back roe-on-kelp licences because they were too expensive. Then he w

Fisheries committee  They never did want to study the impact. The mandate of DFO should be to study the viability of every fishery in British Columbia that they seem to be giving quotas away on. We seem to be settling land claims with fish quotas in British Columbia. When you come to the east coast

Fisheries committee  If you look at the management plan for the spawn-on-kelp industry, their quota is 240,000 pounds, from DFO, and they got to produce 325,000 pounds. That's what the problem is.

Fisheries committee  It's been registered. It's right in their document, in the MOU they had for this year, for 2006. They were given 325,000 pounds and they produced 350,000 pounds. They had an increase of 92,000 pounds.

Fisheries committee  The black market is in addition to all of this.

Fisheries committee  I don't think DFO really knows. I don't even think we really know. But what we're talking about here is that Heiltsuk has gone from 144,000 pounds to 240,000 pounds to 325,000 pounds in three years.

Fisheries committee  Right.

Fisheries committee  Somewhat.

Fisheries committee  In 1996 it was, but then in 1999, when--