Rick Perkins at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

On March 23rd, 2023. See this statement in context.

March 23rd, 2023 / 4:55 p.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

Thank you.

Again, Mr. Vascotto, I'm not sure if it's still up, but there was a PowerPoint slide on the DFO website that showed some seal summit sample results. In their winter sampling of grey seals, they found that 47% of the stomach content was Atlantic mackerel; in the summer, the content, surprisingly, was almost 60% Atlantic herring and Atlantic cod. This is to Mr. Hardy's point about when you hunt them.

At that level, is that not a level far greater than the spawning biomass that exists for those stocks? Is that not the reason they are declining?

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