Mr. Owen Bird at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

On April 24th, 2023. See this statement in context.

April 24th, 2023 / 12:45 p.m.

Executive Director, Sport Fishing Institute of British Columbia

I'd be glad to do that.

Yes, I think the issue at hand here is that, in the 1970s, we took pinnipeds away from the ecosystem management approach. We're suffering the consequences of that now. To then look at this situation as we find it right now and explain that this is returning things to a wild environment seems to be sort of ignoring what occurred in the 1970s and that population.

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