Fisheries committee  I'd like to say for the Newfoundland region a lot of our municipalities will exempt you from taxes if you talk to them. We are exempt from taxes, water--we don't pay for any of it. But there are places in the Newfoundland region where people do have to pay taxes. So I'd like to s

Fisheries committee  Fatigue, to me, I don't know what it means. As far as I'm concerned, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. But what I get frustrated with is the people, the fishermen. In my community, we're supposed to have this breakwater and we've been working on this the last t

Fisheries committee  To me, the earlier in the year they can get those projects out the better, in the Newfoundland region. We're on the northeast coast, and after January the ice comes in and you really can't do much work. So you want to get the projects out early in the spring and get the work done

Fisheries committee  In the Newfoundland region we accommodate recreational boats, but the fisherman comes first. If we get space and so on for recreational boats, then we get to do it. There's a lot of revenue in that, and we do the best we can for those guys. We don't have any complaints with them,

Fisheries committee  Well, it's not just recently that the harbour authority at Burin took over a public wharf from Public Works. It happened to us, and it increased our revenue quite a bit. We now operate with big boats there, because we never had a place to tie up big fishing boats. It's too early

Fisheries committee  Well, like I say, we do take in the revenue from them. Last year we had four Nova Scotia boats that landed that summer. It was something like $4,200 we made off the four boats for the month or so that they were landing fish. That's where they were tying up; it's the only place we

Fisheries committee  Thank you, sir. First of all, I'd like to thank you for inviting us here, and I would like to thank each and every one of you for the money we already got for the program. I'm sure it's going to go a long way into the program. But--I said but--it's not enough. We need a lot more

Fisheries committee  We charge the companies, the fish buyers, that come in to the wharves. This is where most of our revenue comes from; when the fish buyer comes in to the wharf, we charge them a quarter of a cent per pound for everything that comes over the wharf. Then the fishermen have their b

Fisheries committee  Bill, I'd say for the Newfoundland region—and I'm talking about the Newfoundland region—we have excellent cooperation with the small craft harbours program. In our district it's not the problem. The problem is that in our area we have 225 harbours, with 205 harbour authorities

Fisheries committee  Not really. In our area there are doctors on the board of our committee. The way this was set up, whoever was at the first meeting you had when you formed a harbour authority automatically became a member.

Fisheries committee  Yes. All you do is write a letter to the chair of the committee and they would see if you would be accepted onto it. You would then become a member on the board.

Fisheries committee  My name is Morris Fudge. I'm from Newfoundland. We have a very large area in Newfoundland for harbours. The most infrastructure in the program is in the Newfoundland region. If you have a wheelbarrow full of money up here, we want to carry that to Newfoundland. That's the first