Fisheries committee  No, because man's not integrated into the nutrient recycling and health maintenance of the sea, as the sharks are. For instance, when starved fish hit the wall--and that's what's happened with the groundfish; they can't grow above 20 inches of cod anymore--this slinky, miserable

Fisheries committee  Yes, absolutely, but man's not a natural marine predator. The natural marine predators are integrated into perpetuating the life processes in the sea in a way that man is not. Man is a parasitic predator on the marine animals. The marine animals are interconnected, and the functi

Fisheries committee  Yes, they do. They leave them where they shoot them. Wounded or dead, they come ashore. They rot on public beaches and private property. Last summer, there was a kayak tour operator who found a dozen shot, eleven dead and one wounded. It's very commonly done.

Fisheries committee  I might respond that there is quite a lot of use of nuisance seal licences. The nuisance seal hunt is a fairly substantial hunt, judging by the rotting carcasses that are littering the shorelines, shot by fishermen. It's routine in recent years.

Fisheries committee  No, but we communicate with them. We've been over and made presentations to them. We're allied with a few people at Dalhousie University. I'm the main researcher. I've been reading all the science I can find, all that DFO and others have written for 10 years. What I'm seeing is

Fisheries committee  It's a non-profit society. It was formed two and a half years ago.

Fisheries committee  It was two and a half years ago, in the spring of 2004. It's concerned with holistic conservation of the ocean, and it's triggered by the awareness of the collapsing ecosystem. I have a background of being born and raised and living all my life in the fishing industry. My father

Fisheries committee  My name is Debbie MacKenzie representing the Grey Seal Conservation Society based in Nova Scotia. Three years ago, l explained to this committee that starvation is the major factor preventing the recovery of the cod stocks and that this has resulted from a decline in plankton. U