Fisheries committee  That's part of the cycle: 2010 was 30 million, roughly; 2014 was 20 million; but 2018 was down, down, down, for the same cycle run. Again, I think it's just a perfect storm of good conditions.

Fisheries committee  This came from a conversation with one of the enforcement staff out of the Kamloops office. It was a recent conversation. Back in the day when I was a habitat person with the province, DFO had a presence. His point was that all habitat, basically, in the interior, up to Prince G

Fisheries committee  I used to be married to a fish-culturist with the province's Freshwater Fisheries Society. It's just expensive—the pumps, the electricity, the tanks and moving water around. That's my view. We did have some little net-pen operations when I was working for the province. They wor

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much. You must have been out with my friend, Dean Werk, who's a great guy. I would say it comes from the top. There has to be a psychological change in regard to direction right from the executive down. We know back in the 1990s to about 2013, gravel removal was a

Fisheries committee  I was interviewed by CBC, and I said, “You guys have to get out there.” It's not like I really knew what was going on more than a lot of people, but I have a lot of contacts inside DFO, and some of their line guys were saying, “We need to get going, guys.” I guess what I've been

Fisheries committee  Notwithstanding some issues that people were maybe not satisfied with after the Cohen commission, you almost have to strike a commission to figure that out, because no individual can come up with it all. You're right; it's a big engineering project.

Fisheries committee  I do agree with that. It hearkens back to the old salmonid enhancement days in the 1970s and 1980s. In my view, it's basically pocket change. British Columbia is salmon, and salmon is British Columbia. I would add, though, and it goes back to my “heart of the Fraser” issue with

Fisheries committee  In my view, we're in an unprecedented crisis. We've had the Big Bar incident, where the Fraser River collapsed and the upper river stocks aren't able to get up there. This seems to be remediated, but boy, things have to change, otherwise our kids will have absolutely zero. The p

Fisheries committee  If you look south of the Canada-U.S. border, yes, there have been declines in species like chinook and coho. However, those declines are not nearly as precipitous as in the Fraser River and the Gulf of Georgia, so there's a lack of synchrony. In fact, some years our Okanagan Rive

Fisheries committee  In response to your question, madam, my view—and I discussed this with some of the members of Parliament some years ago—is that in effect the most pragmatic thing is to choose parts of the coast where salmon runs are very minimal, where the large Fraser River stocks aren't migrat

Fisheries committee  I would suggest it's not evenly distributed. Concentrations occur in populated areas. There is always a sort of death by a thousand cuts in the Lower Mainland, where every little development, every little shopping centre, every little parking lot that goes up affects habitat. Of

Fisheries committee  I've been advised that the province has pulled out of habitat in the eastern part of the province. As an example, DFO has had to move back as per requirements under the Canadian Constitution. Its fractured forest rules are different. There is a combination of provincial and feder

Fisheries committee  Hi Mel. How are you doing? I'm assuming you're referring to sockeye.

Fisheries committee  Fraser River sockeye have four-year cycles. There's typically a very large brood year every four years, which is dominated usually by Adams River fish. It seems like there was a perfect positive storm for the group of animals that went out for the 2010...so that would have been t

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Marvin Rosenau, and I'm honoured to talk to you today. My background in fisheries work goes back 40 years locally, nationally and overseas within and outside of governments, including in academic and scientific venues as well as in management an