Rick Perkins at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

On February 13th, 2024. See this statement in context.

February 13th, 2024 / 4:40 p.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

I get that.

There lies the problem. The industry has been proposing to you, to the minister—she's not here, so I'll have to rely on you, Deputy Minister—traceability for six years. In fact, this last year, they proposed a system. They offered to pay for it and DFO turned them down and instead shut the fishery down.

Why has it taken so long to put in place a system that's been in place in the United States and Maine for years and that the industry itself is offering to pay for?

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