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

My question was about seals versus commercial fishermen.

You had mentioned at the seal summit, and the minister has mentioned recently, the revelation that seals eat fish. She did that in May last year. I'm curious because in 2021 DFO scientists publicly stated that grey seals have no effect on the cod population and again in 2019 they said the same thing.

So how is it that you have seal stomach contents, yet you say they don't have an impact and now you say they do?

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