Thank you very much. Thank you for coming.
Evidence of meeting #38 for Fisheries and Oceans in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was fishermen.
Evidence of meeting #38 for Fisheries and Oceans in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was fishermen.
11:50 a.m.
Conservative
11:50 a.m.
Manager, Goodman's Landing
Could I just add something here?
You were asking about the viability, and stuff like that, of the fishing. Basically, at McBeth Point, which is about 25 miles north of us, there are about 145 to 180 fishermen, and it's a protected area, so none of those licences or commercial quotas, representing about 600,000 kilos, can be sold out of those areas. Those licences always have to stay in that particular area of the lake, so the viability of the fishing is locked in there.
11:50 a.m.
Conservative
11:50 a.m.
Manager, Goodman's Landing
Yes, it is zoned into 12 areas. Years ago, there was one area that was allowed to sell outside, and basically the community ended up selling everything except about five licences. That was stopped and they put zones in there, so the viability of the fishing in the Goodman's Landing area is going to be around for a long time.
There is more of an opportunity with the whitefish fishery. Normally they have gone further north and they've stayed at stations. Now the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation is looking at shutting down the station there. We could also draw about 12- to 50-foot boats to come in there to deliver their fish, because they're changing where they can fish their fish; they don't have to go as far north, because there is so much whitefish around. So even that enhances Goodman's future.
11:55 a.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Fabian Manning
Thank you very much.
I want to thank you for your presentations here this morning, once again. As I said, it's a different perspective, a different issue, and we certainly welcome those comments.
As we've travelled around Canada, we've heard some different quotes on the same thing, with different words. This is a brand-new one, so we'll take this one into consideration too.
I'd like to thank our witnesses. I'd like to thank the hosts here for having us, and everybody involved in the presentations. This will clew up our cross-Canada tour today, and we'll be working on putting forward a report later on in the fall. If anything arises over the next couple of months that you think we should be made aware of, and which you didn't have the opportunity to express here today, feel free to pass it on to the analyst or the clerk of the committee, and certainly that will also be made part and parcel of our report.
Once again, thank you very much for your time. We had a great trip here to Gimli, and we appreciate your hospitality.
The meeting is adjourned.