Clifford Small at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

On February 27th, 2024. See this statement in context.

February 27th, 2024 / 3:50 p.m.

Conservative

Clifford Small Conservative Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame, NL

There are 70,000 metric tons of bait used in crab and lobster fisheries in Atlantic Canada and Quebec.

Has there been anything undertaken—some kind of process—to come up with an integrated bait management plan to help redfish harvesters and to bring down the price of bait?

Redfish works for lobster and crab quite well. Has anything been done to promote redfish as the number one bait in Atlantic Canada?

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