Fisheries committee  This is not my opinion. Well, it is my opinion. The environmental part is my opinion. I guess the environmental part is whether or not we believe there's global warming. I don't know that we can change the big picture. Can we do something about global warming? Our climate is ch

Fisheries committee  It's unfortunate. Smallmouth bass is a great sport fish that we have in the St. John area or the southeast of the province. It's been there for a hundred years. It's not native to our province, but people have been moving it within the province into lakes or areas they shouldn't

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Fisheries committee  I think New Brunswick is doing well. We're managing, except as Monsieur Cusson says, DFO has maybe not been as active or doesn't have the resources to play a larger part. They've been reluctant in response to our request to act more, or to put.... They don't have the resources. I

Fisheries committee  It was not invented by us at New Brunswick Wildlife but an initiative started by the Department of Natural Resources in our province in the 1990s, I believe. It was a promotional tool. The province wanted to encourage people to fish for trout or other species. The main target in

Fisheries committee  We have a program within our organization that's called Becoming an Outdoors Woman. On June 15 they'll have 70 women participating in a weekend of different aspects of the outdoors. Fishing is a component of it. Be it fly-fishing or fishing with bait, they will do both. They talk

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Weston. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. New Brunswick is fortunate to be geographically situated along the Atlantic Ocean. This offers a multitude of fishing opportunities throughout the year, be it smelt fishing under the ice, followed by the black sa

Environment committee  Mr. Sopuck, here in New Brunswick we don't have a big problem. The province of New Brunswick is vastly rural, so people understand the importance of trapping and hunting. It's not all of our population. We have 100,000 people participating in the sport out of 750,000, but they ar

Environment committee  It's the same thing in New Brunswick. We do participate. You can turn in jawbones. We don't have a program where everybody turns in the jawbone, but those who want to, do. During hunting season the department of natural resources will put bio stations around the province, where t

Environment committee  Climate change is a very complex issue to get into. I have members who would say we're not affecting the climate. Personally I believe that we as humans are a cause of it. What can we do? We could try to minimize our impact in the sense of making better choices. A lot of my memb

Environment committee  We will definitely see some changes. We already see changes with migrations of species to other areas of the province. We've had a lot of flooding in our province lately, and we've seen some very fast increases of rivers. So on climate change, it's warm. We get flooding—and not a

Environment committee  We're always asked to participate and have our comments on species at risk. The only one that I've been involved with would be salmon-related, not hunting-related, because they want to list the Atlantic salmon. I've had some input into that. In terms of other species and our spec

Environment committee  I will answer you in French. Is that okay?

Environment committee  Throughout the province, some of our people are involved in projects. Some projects are under way. I'll have to do it in English because the translation is distracting me, okay? I'm very sorry. On what we're doing to enhance, we have environmental projects that are done by our