Fisheries committee  And you have the same thing here.

Fisheries committee  We have the exact same issues here. You have boats that are fishing 50 miles offshore, 35-foot boats. That issue in itself, Mr. Chairman, has to be changed. All I'm saying to you is, I don't think the 65-foot barrier needs to be lifted. But I think that within that 65-foot barrie

Fisheries committee  You have to move to the Northern Peninsula to be able to experience that.

Fisheries committee  I think you're right. How far we go is the question. How big do we go? Where do we stop? If we get into a 100-footer and all of a sudden we say we have to fish in February, then that 100-footer is getting pretty well useless to me because I can't go out and fish for that period o

Fisheries committee  Back with the sinking of the Ryan's Commander, there was a lot going on. I don't know if you heard, but the fellow was on Fisherman's Broadcast one evening, doing an interview. He was a fellow who had his master mariner's ticket, and he was involved as a captain on ocean liners.

Fisheries committee  Gerry, I want to tell you something right now. I've been involved in the fishing industry for 50 years, but I'll cut that in half and say that in the past 25 years I've been involved in bigger boats. For my first 25 years of being a fisherman, I was only involved in the trap skif

Fisheries committee  Excuse, Mr. Chairman, for jumping in, but that's a good point. You don't have to go into a 100-footer to do that, Hubert. You can design a boat at 65 or 70 feet. If I had the flexibility of going from 65 to 70 feet, you could probably design that boat at a much safer aspect than

Fisheries committee  Our union has a role to play in that, to inform us of what's going on. Being on a committee or being chair of a committee or whatever, I'm sure my name would have gone in to the offices of DFO. On any regulations or any ongoing consultations that are happening, I would expect to

Fisheries committee  There are two things we can probably do to fix it. One is combining. If there are two or three people who want to go into a bigger boat, they can combine the three lots of shrimp they have or whatever and put it into that one boat. That's one way not to issue more product, I woul

Fisheries committee  I would like to apologize to the committee for not being up to date on the vessel replacement. I know there has been some ongoing lobbying by fishermen and different groups, but I've never been invited to those talks and I've never been sent any correspondence about what is going

Fisheries committee  The processors are telling us they've been wanting to shut down in the summer months for the past two or three years. They don't want to see any summer fishery at all, but again, we feel that the boats that we are into are not safe to go out beyond October or November. The reason

Fisheries committee  The reason why is because of the market. That's the time when the market is at its worse.

Fisheries committee  Yes, exactly. Everybody that's involved in this shrimp fishery is not in a 65-footer. You have boats out there that are 45-foot boats. You have more fishermen in 50-footers. I'd say that probably about only 50% of the fleet are 65-foot boats. You have them in much smaller boats.

Fisheries committee  I'm aware that you had to have a stability booklet, but I wasn't aware that there was an ongoing process from 65-foot boats to 100-footers. I know there's been a lot of lobbying—

Fisheries committee  I've never been involved in that.