Fisheries committee  Talking about harbours, we've had fishermen who have literally had to more or less make their own harbours. Mr. Kramp might know the Harrisons at Indian Point--Dave, Harold, and John. They got to the point where the harbour they normally fished out of was bought privately. The gentleman didn't want commercial fishermen in there any more.

Fisheries committee  We've been using them for whitefish and perch, but for pickerel it's something new.

Fisheries committee  The sea lamprey hasn't been as bad...probably in 30 or 40 years. It was probably worse when I was a kid than it is now. The zebra mussels have been a big problem ever since they came, but the fish are starting to eat zebra mussels. I think in just the last two or three years, some of the whitefish have gone from having very little zebra mussel tissue found in their gullets to now where it's half of what they're eating.

Fisheries committee  The spiny water flea is a really bad thing. You have to try to clean your nets. Most of us use soap and water or put chlorine on them. Even fishing with a downrigger, if you get spiny water flea on your line reeling it up, you might as well throw the downrigger away. Your line is no good.

Fisheries committee  It used to be that Roxy's father and my grandfather, and my dad, were quite good friends with commercial fishermen on the other side. There are not a lot over there now. It's the same with them. A lot of them have been put out of business because they didn't want commercial fishermen coming in.

Fisheries committee  We had a meeting on April 2 with the MNR. Last year was one of the worst years we'd had in this area in a long time, and I believe it was up at $4 million or $5 million just for the county area. So there's still a viable industry. Our fish stocks are coming back more all the time.

Fisheries committee  No.

Fisheries committee  Well, yes. There have been Mohawks who have had commercial fishing licences. We've never had any real problems with them. The Canadian Wildlife Service had more problems with natives hunting deer on the property down there.

Fisheries committee  It's part of the reason why there's no money. I think what Roxy is trying to say is that they're saying there's no money available for us to work on the docks and for them to maintain a harbour they took responsibility for, but at the same time, anybody who reads the paper, about every day there's something else about money being transferred to this party or money going to this government or we're sending money overseas.

Fisheries committee  We're part of the Ontario Commercial Fisheries' Association, which actually has some licences that go across the Quebec border. Fishermen from Quebec come to our annual meetings. I believe you have 16 licences to harvest glass eels, 14-centimetre eels, from the Quebec border down towards the east coast.

Fisheries committee  Nothing available.