Fisheries committee  Yes. Ballast water is Transport Canada's domain, not DFO's. We provide the science to support it. That said, yesterday some of my staff were providing presentations on ballast water exchange in the Arctic at a conference related to invasives across the international scope, and th

Fisheries committee  It will support the Cumberland Sound inshore fisheries.

Fisheries committee  I'm not really certain that I would say anything is shrinking. As I said in my remarks, the fisheries are an emerging fisheries. Fifteen, twenty years ago, there really weren't a lot of fisheries in the eastern Arctic. So there's a lot of pressure being exerted to expand fisher

Fisheries committee  Primarily we'd be talking about in the eastern Arctic. It depends upon the community and I guess it depends upon how you're asking your question. If you are asking it from the community's perspective—

Fisheries committee  As I said, you can't underestimate the value of the traditional fisheries, and I'd put marine mammals into that. It's huge, as a food cost to a community. The commercial fisheries related to shrimp and Greenland halibut or turbot are prosecuted by a few people for the larger co

Fisheries committee  I think probably the best thing for me to declare at this point is that although I'm the central and arctic region RDG, I only cover the northern slope of the Yukon. I don't cover the mainland part of it. My colleague from the Pacific region looks after it. I can tell you there

Fisheries committee  I don't know the economic—

Fisheries committee  We could research that, no problem.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  I actually use Cambridge Bay as my middle ground for the Arctic. So everything west of Cambridge Bay is the western Arctic to me, and everything east is sort of the.... I haven't really, even in my mind, gotten it figured out as to what the eastern heart is, but Cambridge Bay is

Fisheries committee  We have offices in Inuvik and Yellowknife, in the western Arctic, and we have an office in Iqaluit, in the eastern Arctic. The director of northern operations, whom I mentioned earlier in my remarks, currently resides in Inuvik. He will be moving when the transportation routes ar

Fisheries committee  I hope I didn't say “hopeful”.

Fisheries committee  It will be, yes, or you'll have a new RDG the next time the committee asks. I'm safe in saying that, in that we substantially completed the work before the freeze-up last October. I was in Pangnirtung just as we were wrapping up operations. The wharf is actually complete. We have

Fisheries committee  I guess I'll start with that one. I'd say that for the most part, the stocks are in pretty good shape. We have some areas where you run up against the traditional harvest and recreational fisheries. We have some fisheries where we have concerns, and we've had catch and release. A

Fisheries committee  We're looking at very small fish. We're seeing high numbers of them, but we're not seeing the size of fish that would make it commercially viable. If you had a big fish versus a small fish, which are you going to prosecute? That's what the research has shown us so far. Dave, I d