Clifford Small at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

On October 9th, 2024. See this statement in context.

October 9th, 2024 / 5:45 p.m.

Conservative

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

Thank you, Ms. Street.

I have right here the NAFO meeting minutes going back to 2020. I did a word search, looking for northern cod. The assistant deputy ministers who were here earlier this week, and the officials, insinuated that there had been pressure from NAFO to convert from a stewardship fishery to a commercial fishery. We couldn't really find much of that—any reference to northern cod at all—in those NAFO meeting minutes.

Are you aware of any pressure in the last five years, like seriously, coming from NAFO to convert this fishery to a commercial fishery so that they could get access? What's your opinion?

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