Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans stood in this House and stated, “for the information of the House, science has not been cut at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans”.
Obviously this will be news to the minister but fishers in 3JKL are wondering why their department cut the otter trawl science survey after 10 years and did not expand the program, as the minister claimed. What happened? Did the minister just forget about that one?
Will the minister immediately put the otter trawl science survey back in place?