Fisheries committee  Thank you, Chair. I apologize for being late to the meeting. I have a keen interest in this. I believe my colleague Mr. Sopuck probably touched on most of the items that are important to me. As I'm reading through your recommendations, Madam Commissioner, it seems to me the iss

Fisheries committee  That's all I have, Mr. Chair. I'll turn it back over to my colleagues here.

Fisheries committee  What's the countdown clock at?

Fisheries committee  We can hear from one more, and I'd like to hear from somebody at the table not video conferencing, if that's okay.

Fisheries committee  It presumes anthropogenic causes.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Chair. Mr. Bain, you alluded in your comments to chum and coho also being species of interest to the southern resident killer whales. Is that correct?

Fisheries committee  Proportionally, their preference will be a chinook salmon, but they'll settle for chum and coho if they can't find the chinook. Would that be a correct statement?

Fisheries committee  Okay. I'm going to use your first names because some of the last names are a little bit long. Lance, I'm sure you're aware, and Mr. Bain, I'm sure you're aware as well, of the concept of ocean ranching. In Japan and other countries that have used ocean ranching, some of it's b

Fisheries committee  Are you saying that the southern resident killer whales differentiate between a hatchery coho and a wild coho?

Fisheries committee  Nevertheless, the same genetics are used in the hatcheries from the rivers where they're reared. We don't take salmon from a different river and hatch them into a different system, do we?

Fisheries committee  Okay. Thank you. Mr. Barrett-Lennard, we've heard that the population of pinnipeds has exploded tenfold on the Pacific coast. When did that explosion actually occur? What would the historical, typical numbers of pinnipeds on the Pacific coast be?

Fisheries committee  Thank you all for coming, and thank you for your passion on this issue.

Fisheries committee  You got the short straw.

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much, Chair. To start, I'm going to ask some questions of our witness from Ecojustice. Ms. Venton, the current closure of the recreational and commercial fishery zone off the southwest coast of Vancouver Island does not follow the boundaries that were agreed upo

Fisheries committee  That's fair.