Clifford Small at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

On October 18th, 2022. See this statement in context.

October 18th, 2022 / 5 p.m.

Conservative

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

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

My question is for Monsieur Noël.

I know that, in Newfoundland and Labrador, crab fishing is carried out, as Mr. Sullivan stated earlier, with 70 pots in a string with two haul-ups. In your area in the gulf there, are you fishing with pots on strings, or are you using a single pot with each pot on a vertical rope?

If so, do you think that switching to Japanese-style crab pots, such as we use in Newfoundland and Labrador, would reduce the chances of right whales' being entangled in vertical lines or haul-ups? Don't you think that would very positively impact what we're trying to do here?

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