Peter Stoffer at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

On May 3rd, 2007. See this statement in context.

May 3rd, 2007 / 12:15 p.m.

NDP

Peter Stoffer NDP Sackville—Eastern Shore, NS

Thank you.

I have an e-mail here from Claire MacDonald, who's the senior adviser of small pelagics in DFO region. The minister just allowed, against all the protestation of inshore fishermen, a mid-water trawl off Nova Scotia. In her e-mail she says:

—a possible fall spawning survey on herring would be attempted by the mid-water trawl vessels using any balance of the allocation.

What do you think they mean by that?

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