Fisheries committee  With respect to the processing sector on the east coast, certainly discussions on a variety of things relating to the management of the fishery occur at the Canadian Council of Fisheries and Aquaculture Ministers, in collaboration with their provincial counterparts. It is their j

Fisheries committee  It's not within our jurisdiction to intervene in provincial jurisdictions. We don't have the tools—they exist in provincial jurisdictions—to regulate the processing sector.

Fisheries committee  I don't have that number. I'm not sure that we could provide it. I could work with my colleagues in the Pacific region. I wouldn't even want to speculate if the answer would be greater than zero.

Fisheries committee  No, because those licences only afford access to that offshore area.

Fisheries committee  What I was referring to there is that if we were to be notified by a corporate licence holder that its corporate structure had changed and that it was no longer 51% Canadian, the licence holder would become ineligible to have a licence reissued. At the time its current licence ex

Fisheries committee  In my opening remarks, I was referring to a permanent quota transfer, as opposed to a permanent licence transfer. All licence transfers are permanent.

Fisheries committee  It's probably a poor use of words.

Fisheries committee  The difference would be that a temporary quota transfer would be for one season only. The permanent one would effectively be permanently moving some of that quota from one licence to another—so each year that it's reissued. If I have 100 tonnes of something, for example, and so

Fisheries committee  Thanks for the question. Prior to the coming into force of the inshore regulations, we were working with a policy, which is a different beast to implement. We now have the inshore regulations, which are, I think, what folks were referring to when they were referencing resources.

Fisheries committee  The ownership of these companies is a matter of public record, so that would be the means by which...and the requirement around that 15-day notification if that structure is changed.

Fisheries committee  We would look at the public registry information related to the ownership of the company. Obviously there are legal requirements around the truthfulness of those reportings.

Fisheries committee  Certainly socio-economic considerations do play into the minister's decision-making. It's prescribed right in the Fisheries Act legislation that that's a legitimate consideration for the minister. We have economic analysts who work on those sorts of things. When the minister is m

Fisheries committee  Your question is if they could acquire new inshore licences. The answer would be that any inshore licence subject to the inshore regulations that is currently in the hands of an independent core harvester could not be reissued to Clearwater or to any other—

Fisheries committee  —corporate entity. That's correct.

Fisheries committee  That would be under the inshore regulations, so it would be a regulatory requirement that would prescribe the eligibility.