Fisheries committee  No, sir. It was a tremendous failure.

Fisheries committee  I've been involved in both at different times, in the summer and into the fall, but not really in the winter season. It was impossible to get the gear to come back. It would not auto-deploy when triggered. We suspected that, so we had a traditional line on the other end so that we could recover it when it would not deploy automatically when actioned to do so.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, committee members. I wish to thank you for permitting me to appear before you to share my experiences regarding the North Atlantic right whale and how it relates to lobster fishing in southwestern Nova Scotia. Members are licensed to fish from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, along the south shore to Digby, Nova Scotia, in lobster fishing areas 33 and 34.