Fisheries committee  That's a good point.

Fisheries committee  Likewise, thank you, folks.

Fisheries committee  It has been part of tradition in this part of the world as long as I've been here. I've only been in the Yukon 35 years, but I remember people doing that when I initially came here. I had only seen it in British Columbia prior to that, but at the same time, yes, it has grown. I

Fisheries committee  I would say, generally, that they're well put together. They go through a system where the public has input into the changes. What would I like to see changed? Obviously, we'd all like to see a process that's easier and more common sense to deal with, but at the same time I thin

Fisheries committee  Absolutely they do, but at the same time they're a very minor portion of the Yukon government's budget compared to, let's say, the mineral industry.

Fisheries committee  I think most of the miners like to fish too, but at the same time there have been issues over the years in terms of what happens between the industry and the sport fishing groups. I'd say generally it has been reasonable in terms of the interaction between the groups. It has cert

Fisheries committee  They haven't in the past, but I actually had people talking to me at our last get-together in Ottawa about some of the major players in Yukon that could be interested. We have a real problem right now with Yukon chinook salmon. I've heard rumours that some of them may be interest

Fisheries committee  You did remind me of the one question I missed. In terms of the licence fees and that sort of thing, I believe it doesn't matter what province you're in, those fees should go back into a fund so the money is then used to promote whatever programs are deemed necessary or the crit

Fisheries committee  I would say that obviously first on the list for the majority of people it's probably lake trout in terms of who's going to get the big fish or whatever, but at the same time probably in terms of the fish species that are the most widely used, I would say that northern pike and t

Fisheries committee  Yes, some of those stocks are overfished. Where we have lakes that are close to our larger populations, they're all affected and they are affected because 20 or 30 years ago we had people who put a lot of effort into catching the big lake trout, the big pike. They just took too

Fisheries committee  We haven't yet, but because of the change, we have been talking with some other folks in terms of how we might be able to work together with them in terms of putting in an application. So far we haven't. We just found that we were too constrained, and.... If I want to be honest

Fisheries committee  Thanks.

Fisheries committee  Yes, we do. Absolutely.

Fisheries committee  From the studies they've done here, at least, I don't think it's any different from the rest of Canada. I guess to summarize, I'd say it's similar.

Fisheries committee  Obviously we are very fortunate in the Yukon. Yes, you're bang on. We are attractive to a lot of non-resident Canadians. We have a lot of Americans. We actually have a lot of Europeans also. How do we help these folks? I guess it's just by making sure we have as good information