Fisheries committee  I'll just make a quick comment. Mr. MacAulay, as you said, it will depend completely within LFAs, but until this point, this is the first time we've been seriously talking about having a buy-back or having rationalization with the provincial and federal government that's not ju

Fisheries committee  That marketing scheme wasn't something we, as industry, were involved in. I just want to touch on your point about volunteer.... I think, given the demographic of the fishing industry today in Atlantic Canada, it's not going to be a problem. Having a voluntary program to rationa

Fisheries committee  In New Brunswick it's almost 100%, about 80%. There are some down at the bottom that aren't members. In Nova Scotia our membership is smaller, but there are other organizations in Nova Scotia that are part of the alliance as well. I hate to put a number on it, but it's close to

Fisheries committee  I don't have an exact figure, but I know that it totally depends on the area, as you said. It would completely depend on the area. But as Ed said, it will be older people, and they'll be looking at this mostly for their retirement and so on. If they're not, and they're younger pe

Fisheries committee  I just want to add that as far as marketing goes, one of our main problems, as I'm sure everybody knows, is that our market has been pretty much pigeonholed to the United States. So in any of the marketing schemes the marketing that goes on has to be worldwide. That has to be exp

Fisheries committee  To date in New Brunswick the MFU has not been involved in those discussions. Even after there was a call for a meeting and a call for action and so on, the Province of New Brunswick had not—

Fisheries committee  What I have here is one of the documents that I plan to leave with the committee. There was a pilot project that was put together by the fishermen in New Brunswick. This will give you an example of that. I'll just read from it: “The program would essentially require that existing

Fisheries committee  I have to say no to that. At this point they're not, not in New Brunswick.

Fisheries committee  And I think that's an effect on the price as well. When the price is so low and their livelihoods are at stake and so on--that's what they see and they have to pay the bills and feed their families and so on--they're going to harvest as much as they can.

Fisheries committee  I'd just like to add to what Earle said. One of the numbers that we in the AAFR, the alliance, have been looking for is a one-third reduction of the fleets and enterprises in Atlantic Canada. That would increase the viability, the stock rebuilding, and so on, of the market. So th

Fisheries committee  My name is Ruth Inniss. I work with the Maritime Fishermen's Union. The Maritime Fishermen's Union, for those of you who don't know, is made up of membership in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with about 1,600 members. The lion's share of the members are in New Brunswick. In No