Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll endeavour to get through all this in the allotted time. I'm the program director for Quebec of the Atlantic Salmon Federation. We've submitted a brief to you that I understand has been translated. On behalf of the ASF, I'd like to take this opport

Fisheries committee  Thank you. We carry out research, advocacy, public awareness, and community outreach to confront the threats throughout the salmon's life cycle. We have seven regional councils and 125 affiliated organizations throughout its range in North America. Our research department has

Fisheries committee  DFO could become the partner in research that it once was, I'd say, dating back to the 1980s, when the funding levels were a lot higher. We, as an NGO, have been doing a lot of research on the marine environment to try to find out where the “murder site”—a term we commonly use—is

Fisheries committee  Get involved again in research in the marine environment.

Fisheries committee  They could be supporting our research activities in the marine environment, tracking juveniles, and tracking adult fish. We have a very good idea of what route the juvenile fish take to make it back to Greenland. We're starting to have a much better idea of what route the adult

Fisheries committee  To give you an idea, the satellite tags that we use to track the adult fish cost $2,500 each, but the payoff is that we know exactly where they go. We know how long they stay along Anticosti Island, how long it takes them to go from there through the strait of Belle Isle, and wh

Fisheries committee  First of all, I think what needs to be done is to put the financing in place so that it can be applied. A review was scheduled for 2014, which would have marked five years, but the policy has never been implemented. The money has to be put into getting the policy implemented and

Fisheries committee  Bring back funding levels from the 1980s.

Fisheries committee  Compared to now, the latest figure I have for Atlantic salmon is about $12 million, and that's down. If I can find my figure again...you mentioned $24 million.

Fisheries committee  There are things that the DFO did in the past that were complementary to the work we were doing. In the initial days of our small tracking program, they provided transportation on some of their boats for us to be able to perform our research. Those boats were going out there any

Fisheries committee  As I see it, up to now, Canada’s diplomatic pressure on France to become a member of the NASCO has not been as strong as the pressure brought to bear by the people within NASCO. If France were part of NASCO, it would be governed by the same rules as the other countries that have

Fisheries committee  We are indeed. If we are going to try to ask other people to do what we're telling them to do, we not only have to talk the talk, we have to walk the walk. What I mean by that is that we have to reduce our harvest of the fish at all levels until we have a better handle on exact

Fisheries committee  That is correct.

Fisheries committee  That's the overall budget for DFO for Atlantic salmon.

Fisheries committee  I agree.