Pat Finnigan at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

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

September 26th, 2016 / 4:55 p.m.

Liberal

Pat Finnigan Liberal Miramichi—Grand Lake, NB

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thanks also to the panel and for the passion that we have here for our last panel discussion. I will start with Mr. Sullivan. I will get to Mr. Etchegary.

Mr. Sullivan, did you say you would like to have more quotas? We're talking about the stocks being down and also that, as DFO said—but Mr. Etchegary contradicted—the fish do not migrate that far. Apparently we're in a fishbowl here that we control, but according to DFO, the fish do not migrate outside it. How would you explain a higher quota when we're facing such a downturn in the catches?

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