Mr. Speaker, the resource conservation councils are not the only things being cut by DFO. News has broken in recent days that further cuts to the science branch of Fisheries and Oceans are coming. The branch has already been gutted.
Do the Conservatives really expect to manage our future fishery without any science based planning and with no input from the fishermen who work our seas?
John Crosbie once asked, “Who hears the fishes when they cry?”. Well, who hears our fishermen when they speak?