Fisheries committee  That's some of it. The other part of it is that the biomass is so much larger, so the lobsters are going to different areas to find food and stuff like that. As I pointed out, LFA 34, like most LFAs in the seventies and eighties, was a traditional inshore fishery. That 50 fathom

Fisheries committee  No, and I think that's the thing we're going to try to do, and actually look at it as we do a tagging program and track lobsters. Maybe there are other areas. We simply don't know. Like I said, when they closed Browns Bank, that was kind of the low-hanging fruit. The informatio

Fisheries committee  What it really comes down to is that we have to have collaboration between the two. Everybody can't work in their silos like in the past. There really was not a whole lot of of collaboration, at least in our area. We have to really focus on temperature monitoring, larvae settleme

Fisheries committee  Good afternoon and thank you for the opportunity to address the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans on the subject of lobster movement. As mentioned, my name Bernie Berry and I am President of the Coldwater Lobster Association. I represent approximately 200 lobster harve

Fisheries committee  Right now it's not a big problem, especially on the fishing side. We don't believe that fishing licences are being foreign controlled. There are some mechanisms now in place to stop that. Again I go back to our concern, the buy-in sector of the industry. If that is taken over by

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. I think that's what we're looking for because other industries—as you point out, the agricultural industry—have systems like that in place, even at a provincial level. Even with our provincial government, there are things in place for young individuals wanting to get

Fisheries committee  From our perspective, when some of these larger companies are joining forces to access product, I think some of the agreements and deals they've done simply have to be looked at more closely to see who is controlling that company. Like I said, it's a very tricky situation becaus

Fisheries committee  Mr. Donnelly, I think that unfortunately B.C. took a different approach...or the federal government actually took a different approach back in the seventies when they announced the owner-operator fleet separation. It restricted it to the Atlantic coast and didn't include the west

Fisheries committee  I think that is the case. It's simply the rule that a licence can only be held by one person. It's something that we have to contend with. I don't think cases like this actually come up very often, where you have numerous sons and/or daughters who want to share in a licence. Usua

Fisheries committee  Yes, absolutely.

Fisheries committee  It is an improvement to what was in place. The key is, hopefully by this coming fall, that a lot of this stuff will be ironed out, passed into law, and stuff like that. I think what the minister and the department are trying to do will have a positive effect on keeping these fish

Fisheries committee  I don't think we can take that approach now. There's been too much water under the bridge. What you're talking about is basically what goes on, for example, in the main lobster fishery, where the government owns the licence and when the gentleman is ready to retire, it's just giv

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the opportunity to present today in front of the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans. My name is Bernie Berry, and I am President of the Coldwater Lobster Association, which is located in southwest Nova Scotia. Our association represents lobst