Rick Perkins at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

On November 4th, 2022. See this statement in context.

November 4th, 2022 / 2:45 p.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

I have one more question regarding the U.S. side of things.

The U.S. is still fishing the mackerel commercially, and I tell you, from Peggy's Cove to Prospect in my riding where the mackerel fishermen are—the big mackerel—they're finding lots of mackerel out there; they're not allowed to catch them now, because they're lobster fishermen. The U.S. is still catching them, and they set their TAC usually by making an assumption about what Canada's TAC is. If Canada ends fishing, as they did this year, do you expect the U.S. to catch more mackerel next year and set a higher TAC?

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