Fisheries committee  Charlottetown.

Fisheries committee  We have one fellow from Moncton there right now who is filling in.

Fisheries committee  This winter has been really a difficult winter, in that Jim's position hasn't been filled as of yet, and they're short-staffed in there. And there's one out on sick leave, so it does put you.... I'm 10 to 15 days away from going fishing myself, and as the president of the harbour authority, I have to make sure that everything is done, and really there aren't a lot of people to talk to.

Fisheries committee  Yes, it hasn't been too bad up until this winter, but as I said, they're short-staffed, and this is getting to be a busy time of the year now. What I'd like to see is if we do have projects on, or we do have things to do, let's get them done a month or two previous, before we all get on the water.

Fisheries committee  First of all, if we need dredging done we go to the small craft harbours people. They have to okay the dredging. Then we have to go through a tender process and get two, three, four tenders. As volunteers, we have to get that done. We're in the process of doing that now. We have to take them back, review them, and the lowest tender always gets the job.

Fisheries committee  Well, as harbour manager...we have to take care of our little maintenance in the harbour. We have to take care of our electrical, our water, our phone, and our lights; we pay for all that ourselves. We've even hired a night watchman that we have to pay for now. So if anything comes up at all, we really haven't got the funding for it any more.

Fisheries committee  It's been about ten years.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  It's $10 a day, $50 a week, or $400 a year.

Fisheries committee  There are 76 boats that are lobster fishing. There are 76 boats there at all times--and we're up over 100 at times.

Fisheries committee  You're better with your ordinary pair of boots; it's 12 or 14 inches high. That's basically what we've got for water there.

Fisheries committee  We basically run the gauntlet every day. It's the wind.

Fisheries committee  Our wharf's in a situation where some of the wharf has deteriorated, and we have to haul it out via truck. We don't know if we're going to be able to get the truck in there this spring, right now, to do it. This is what we have for water right now. It's a dangerous situation.

Fisheries committee  It's very, very dangerous.

Fisheries committee  We did have the inside of the basin dredged. It came out good. We worked with the environment people and everyone, and we found a spot to put all the dredged oil. That worked out very good but it took a number of years to do it. It's good there now, but we have a problem getting to the basin now.