Rick Perkins at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

On March 9th, 2023. See this statement in context.

March 9th, 2023 / 4:05 p.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

I'm seeing here it goes back to 2017. You must have analyzed it since then and can provide us the details. I would ask that you table that.

I'll move on to my next question. Seals eat somewhere between 10 pounds and 30 pounds of food a day, on average. By DFO's number, there are roughly about 11 million seals in Atlantic Canada. That puts the consumption in the tens of millions of tonnes, roughly. We catch about 180,000 metric tonnes of finfish in the commercial fishery, so you'll agree the primary predator of finfish in the waters in Atlantic Canada is seals, not fishermen.

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