Fisheries committee  I'd just like to remind the audience that the media is here. Take advantage of it and get pictures. Use it.

Fisheries committee  In answer to your question, I would say no at this point, because it's new. It's an experimental market, but we do have the potential for 450 metric tons per year, which represents 10 to 20 containers.

Fisheries committee  And then you've got to remove the bones.

Fisheries committee  From a 500-pound seal?

Fisheries committee  That data was DFO science. Mr. Hammill mentioned earlier, a tonne and a half, but it's unclear whether that's actual fish flesh or if it's only the belly content. If it's only the belly content, that gets multiplied by five, because your belly content's only 20% of the fish. So m

Fisheries committee  In the pictures that were circulated, the whole fish wasn't eaten. They have every opportunity to eat the whole fish, but they go for the belly content, which only represents 20% of the overall weight of the fish. DFO science doesn't differentiate. We can't get an answer as to wh

Fisheries committee  So it could be multiplied by five.

Fisheries committee  You've put me on the spot now.

Fisheries committee  Your average grey seal can grow to 300 or 400 pounds. The yield on a seal I'm not sure of. What would you yield from a seal if you were to skin and gut a seal and have just meat, clear bone?

Fisheries committee  Am I hearing this right? We're now going to give seals medicare so they can live longer? We have a problem with too many now. We want to reduce the herd size, not make them live longer.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, could I just make a comment?

Fisheries committee  If you take a 20,000 metric ton biomass of cod in a four-year period where you aren't fishing it, and it's reduced to less than 4,000 metric tons, then...? You know, here's your sign. It should be obvious. Look at the natural curve of the fish. Look at the curve of the increase

Fisheries committee  There's definitely a market. There's an existing market. Right now we're on the doorsteps for 450 metric tons of frozen seal meat at present, and that's potential. It's all but a closed deal.

Fisheries committee  Good morning, fellow committee members, witnesses, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Peter Stoddard. I'm the procurement and resource manager for Sea Star Seafoods Limited, Clark's Harbour. Sea Star has enjoyed 23 years of successful business. The Cunningham name has been synon