There are two programs, yes.
Evidence of meeting #3 for Fisheries and Oceans in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was companies.
Evidence of meeting #3 for Fisheries and Oceans in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was companies.
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President, Biorex Inc.
The first one is the second largest program in the world. It is the north Pacific groundfish observer program, run by the federal American government. The second program, which is interdependent with the first one, is the Alaska shellfish onboard observer program. Under both these programs, the services to the fishing industry are provided by the same four or five competing companies, so it's about the same. The two programs are tied by the fact that five competing companies provide service to both of them, in the same region. We're talking about maybe 600 observers, 40,000 sea dates per year, so about twice the size of the old program in Canada. It's a very big program.
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Conservative
Fabian Manning Conservative Avalon, NL
Is the report you were asking for on the six possible options from the independent expert? I'd like to see those six possible options.
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President, Biorex Inc.
That will be provided with the Gardner Pinfold report. It's part of that.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gerald Keddy
It has been a very informative meeting.
The meeting is adjourned.