Fisheries committee  I'm staying where I'm to.

Fisheries committee  I haven't reached the quota.

Fisheries committee  We're at an age now when we should be looking ahead for the younger people coming up and give them a better environment for their work, instead of getting hung up on regulations and stuff. We're pretty well finished with this racket, right? At least we should put something in pla

Fisheries committee  I think there should be a reduction in the fish harvesters out there, through a buyout or early retirement. The rest of the quota would go back into the system, where an individual could run his boat. There are too many harvesters out there for the amount of fish out there.

Fisheries committee  No.

Fisheries committee  Yes. I had to cut 18 inches off my vessel for the DFO regulations. That cost me anywhere from $5,000 to $8,000. I got the rudder stuck out on the back of her, and I had to put two feet on the keel for the regulations. I can't see a problem with that. If someone has an IQ for a

Fisheries committee  I'm going to touch briefly on boat safety. I'm not going to talk too much about stability. What I'll say is, in order for a fisherperson to keep his or her boat in good and safe condition, he or she must have money. Therefore, DFO should give us an amount of quota that is good f

Fisheries committee  Obviously. In the province now, we have so many fish plants and they want to eliminate some of them. When they go, we'll have to have something in their place. I can see what's going to happen there: if they don't pay the price for the seals, Quebec is going to get them. We'll co

Fisheries committee  I don't know who it keeps happy, but it sure as hell doesn't keep us happy.

Fisheries committee  There's not a problem with the buyers. If we had as many buyers for fish as what we have for seals, we'd be all right. You take so long to ask a question, I forget what you said. I dealt with your first one. What was your second one?

Fisheries committee  I think you should open it up. I think the opening of the season for us has been put forward and forward because of the ice conditions; the ice is melting faster and we're losing a lot of seals because of it. I think we should go back to at least April 8 and open it then. But a

Fisheries committee  I think in our situation in area 6, the rollover is all right; there's not a problem with it. I lost my train of thought. What was the question?

Fisheries committee  He's a shareman; he's only working on my boat. My boat is licensed for area 6. Right? But if I've got a fellow from area 5, he's got to stop. We were sealing the other year and we stopped on a Friday for a count. We had to stop Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. We stopped hunting s

Fisheries committee  I have on my vessel assistant sealers. When one comes aboard the boat, we teach him the right way to dispatch a seal, the correct way to pelt a seal. We want people there who are professional. We want to get the maximum from the seal that we can. You can have a training program

Fisheries committee  My view is that we can probably kill even more if the market is there, but we should maintain the market.