Mel Arnold at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

On September 26th, 2016. See this statement in context.

September 26th, 2016 / 9:40 a.m.

Conservative

Mel Arnold Conservative North Okanagan—Shuswap, BC

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I want to thank the witnesses for being here this morning.

We heard earlier that Sweden closed their fishery for only three years. In Canada, it's now 25 years on, and we're still studying it. Can you tell me what the difference was with their stocks? Was it Sweden or Norway that did that? Were their stocks depleted as badly as the stocks off Canada's coast? What did they do differently to restore that fishery so quickly?

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