Fisheries committee  Tomorrow, in Shelburne, you are going to meet Dr. Mike Hammill. He is the one who conducted and published the recent studies on fish consumption in the Gulf by harp and grey seals. So you will have an opportunity to raise that tomorrow. You will be talking to the expert in the fi

Fisheries committee  To answer your question, Mr. Byrne, there are about 700 licences, on average, issued per year. Out of those, we qualify about 350 as commercially active; they earn a significant part of their annual salary from sealing. There are no accurate numbers on this, but this estimate is

Fisheries committee  A good estimate is maybe $70.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, I work at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and I am attending the meeting as a resource person. I will not be giving a presentation to the committee.