Fisheries committee  I'm happy to try to speak to that. Certainly, you're right. We've seen increased sizes in vessels, and it does create real congestion problems in some harbours. In some of the places where we used to be able to berth three vessels, we're berthing two. I know the small craft harb

Fisheries committee  Effort-based fisheries have limited entry. They set a limit on the number of licences. Licences can be transferred or sold, but in terms of expanding that, there's no real work under way to substantially increase the number of entrants into the program.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  It's true that the vessels have gotten larger. Some of the beams on those boats are pretty big. However, the control function.... It's true that they can carry more traps, but given the limited entry by the number of licences and the limitations on the number of traps.... It's tr

Fisheries committee  The rights-based fishery is the food, social and ceremonial fishery. It varies with different indigenous communities and it's negotiated through the indigenous fisheries leads in the regions, typically. It depends on actual need for individual communities. It sets limits or as-ne

Fisheries committee  FSC isn't commercial, of course. Coming out of the Marshall decision, there are commercial communal licences for first nations communities. Those are subject to rules that are pretty much analogous to those in the commercial fishery. There are two different lines along indigenous

Fisheries committee  I think the AFF, which been mentioned, has been a real source for industry to come in this year, and it has enjoyed a good uptake. With respect to diversification of the lobster industry in particular, I'm not sure, off the top of my head, that there's a particular program for i

Fisheries committee  I think the high demand is something that harvesters enjoy, and it's a nice problem to have. Basically, the controls are at the level of the allocation of quotas, which plays out within supply and demand globally, with fixed quotas or fixed deliveries. I think we've seen good pr

Fisheries committee  I'm prepared to speculate irresponsibly on that. Thinking of the whole lobster market, I think the target size that harvesters generally aim for is somewhere around two pounds. That's a plate lobster.

Fisheries committee  Yes. I think the demand for that has been extremely high, so I don't know that there's necessarily much risk in that. They just enjoy great international markets. Having said that, there is a range of other products, such as canning and the Popsicle packs, but I think you get the

Fisheries committee  No.

Fisheries committee  There is no recreational lobster fishery. I think that's probably the best way to say that.

Fisheries committee  I'm happy to speak to that. There were changes recently in what we call the static and dynamic closure regime, which I think folks are aware of, that went into place last year. We were very fortunate there. There were no mortalities, as far as we know. There have been some chang

Fisheries committee  I'd only be speculating. We'll have to undertake to follow up from our trade office on that. Certainly the largest market for us is still the United States. However, you're absolutely right; we've seen very strong growth in the Chinese market. We've seen some growth in the Euro

Fisheries committee  I'm not sure there's any specific work on potential labour market migration that would be driven by movement of stock. You'd start to speculate on that, but I have to say I'm not aware of work that's going on specifically around that kind of labour market movement question.