Fisheries committee  I think there will be stress on it unless something is done. Both levels of government in Newfoundland and Labrador today are in confrontation with harvesters, and these are some of the things that are coming out. Our provincial government abandoned our loan policy, and that thro

Fisheries committee  If I could, I would improve my vessel, and the only way I could do so would be to build a bigger or more stable one. I'm not concerned about the stability of my boat, but I'm a baby boomer with a son coming tight to my heels who's involved in the fishery. He's been to school an

Fisheries committee  No major changes that I'm aware of. There has been some movement in that they allow people with licences greater than 45 feet, and they cap the cubic number. They're letting you go to 64 feet 11 inches, but they cap your cube. There was a bit of juggling around, but to my knowl

Fisheries committee  Oh yes, quite aware. You see those boats come off the shipyards, and they're new boats and they cost a lot of money. Actually they could probably build cheaper boats if they went with a longer length and wider. I don't know, but these are not cheap boats. They cost a lot of money

Fisheries committee  Mostly in the fishing season, when we're busy flat out, you find out all those meetings are going ahead.

Fisheries committee  I think we have to look at the stability issue. If we combine the crew and combine licences, that would probably give us enough fish to catch to build the type of vessel that would pass the stability test. The problem with that right now is that with the fish I have to catch, I c

Fisheries committee  We haven't got into any modifications.

Fisheries committee  She might never pass. She may have to be scrapped. I don't know that.

Fisheries committee  Well, there hasn't been any confrontation done. We were questioned, and no, we haven't been part of it. When the boat was built in the yard, they built what they call a basic model, the first boat put out, and that boat was tested. Then my boat basically is a sister ship. Maybe

Fisheries committee  I may not have to touch one thing in this earthly world. The $15,000 is just a fee to get her on dry dock and get the marine architects to draw all the proper lines and do the actual tests. We're not talking any modifications. That's what it costs just to get the test done.

Fisheries committee  Just the test, yes.

Fisheries committee  We haven't had too much input. I was talking to the president, Mr. Keddy, this morning, and he told me that he'd been warning us for three or four years. I must say, I study and I read newspapers from Nova Scotia. I have seen his name in the paper and I've seen some of the stuff

Fisheries committee  Basically, I'm into a multi-species vessel, and yes, it causes some problems with stability when you're changing gear completely. But when you're capped on the length of your vessel, that's where you run into problems. You can make them wider, you can make them deeper, but you're

Fisheries committee  I haven't done any assessment for stability. We go with the fishery and what we're allowed to get. You get cut in quotas. You get a quota, like a crab quota. This year I got somewhere around one-third of the quota I had three years ago. We were into the cod fishery. In 1992 we l

Fisheries committee  I don't think that stability booklet is really going to change it. I think for the present and the future, for all new vessels built, there should be very tight regulations on it. But if it can't pass the test for stability, then I'm basically out of the fisheries. I don't know i