Fisheries committee  We have annual round tables with DFO where these types of issues are discussed, as well as more localized issues. I would have to go back in our files to see if we received a formal response.

Fisheries committee  To date, we haven't done that. We haven't named specific amounts. I did want to mention that we are seeing some of the judicial fines increase quite a bit on the island. We're viewing that as a positive trend. Fines used to be probably a few hundred dollars. A high fine would m

Fisheries committee  As some of these situations surface—and I alluded to bait earlier—I think that we will look into those things. We've had an area where they've been using black boxes, as they're called. They are GPS units that trace the movement of the boats in some areas where we're having abuse

Fisheries committee  I can't name a country specifically. I would frame it more as a situation of countries that are getting into dead zones and fishing out certain species. That's a great concern when you have perhaps millions of people to feed. As many of us know, seafood tends to be the primary di

Fisheries committee  I don't have an exact tally. I do know we had an issue of understaffing in a number of positions that weren't filled. The last report was that they were fully staffed and I think looking to add some people to the enforcement core over here.

Fisheries committee  I was just going to mention, Mr. Arnold, that this was why I highlighted bait earlier. We tend to focus on the human consumption products, but bait is one that floats out there. It doesn't always come under the purview of CFIA because it's not for human consumption. This is maybe

Fisheries committee  Thanks very much. It's just Ian MacPherson here this afternoon. Captain Jenkins had to leave when our plans changed on the video conference. He sends his apologies. Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, and members of the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans. My name is Ian MacPhe

Fisheries committee  That's a standing offer to anyone in government. I wasn't totally clear after the round table last week about how much interaction there's going to be between DFO and industry before the conditions are set for the 2019 fishing season. That's something we'll continue to monitor

Fisheries committee  I just want to mention some of the specific ones that might have come forth. Certainly there was a discussion around the seasons opening earlier. If the community did not have impacts from ice, they could go sooner. The rationale behind that, which was put forth some time ago, wa

Fisheries committee  I would add our take. I guess last week we were encouraged by Minister Wilkinson's use of the term “coexistence”, and I think that has to be paramount for any approach that we do. We'd like to move forward here, but in doing the reassessment of how 2018 came in, and some of thos

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you once again to the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans for the opportunity for the Prince Edward Island Fishermen's Association to present on the important topic of mitigation strategies for the North Atlantic right whale. My name is Ian

Fisheries committee  It's been an interesting situation because they're federal waters, so we were surprised that in certain situations provincially it can take precedence over a federal EA in federal waters. That's part of what we're dealing with in the Abercrombie mill situation there. Certainly t

Fisheries committee  We could certainly provide that.

Fisheries committee  One of the recent examples was that there were some fairly minor fines assessed to, unfortunately, some bad actors who had captured a number of female snow crab. Of course, with any egg-bearing females, in lobster or whatever, it's important for the resource to be sustained. We d

Fisheries committee  We certainly could do that because we want the resource to be sustainable, and it only takes a few people acting out to create some problems.