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Fisheries committee  I would say they are two separate things: a traditional fishery versus a recreational fishery. A recreational fishery, to me, is a fishery where folks like us would go up and pay money for a licence, as clearly some of the best fishing in the world is in the north. You can't rea

April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting

David Burden

Fisheries committee  Thank you. My name is David Burden. I'm the regional director general for the central and Arctic region. I have with me this morning my colleagues: Dave Gillis is the director general of ecosystems science here at headquarters; and Blair Hodgson will answer all the tough questi

April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting

David Burden

Foreign Affairs committee  It's a very good question, but I don't have any knowledge—

March 21st, 2013Committee meeting

David Burden

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, the ecotourism side would be outside of our mandate, but I understand where you're coming from on what the ramifications of it would be. I guess I could hide behind the comfort of knowing that it's emerging but it's not emerging that much, and it's in areas where clearly we

March 21st, 2013Committee meeting

David Burden

Foreign Affairs committee  I think it's more the latter. To answer the first part of your question, if there's a vessel transiting in the Arctic, particularly a cruise ship, we know where it is and there's reporting. I imagine Jody Thomas and others have spoken about NORDREG and that kind of stuff. That's

March 21st, 2013Committee meeting

David Burden

Foreign Affairs committee  No. There are a few vessels. I'm familiar with one, the Hanseatic. It basically makes a circuit and just keeps going through. I've run into it pretty much every time I've been in the Arctic in the summer. That's usually as it's going up through there.

March 21st, 2013Committee meeting

David Burden

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't think anything has really changed. You know, people talk about climate change, and the Arctic opening up, and how we're going to have ice-free waters. I think that's a bit of a misconception. The reality is that reduced ice doesn't mean no ice. There are a number of ves

March 21st, 2013Committee meeting

David Burden

Foreign Affairs committee  Again, on the partnership side we have Transport Canada aerial surveillance, where we look for pollution. We have sovereignty patrols from the coast guard as well as the Department of National Defence. What I do is that I have some of my conservation officers on board those ass

March 21st, 2013Committee meeting

David Burden

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't profess to speak for the coast guard. I spent many years in the agency, and it was some of the proudest service I had, but I think the commissioner would rather speak to the coast guard issues. That said, as I said in my remarks, as you have more traffic, there will be m

March 21st, 2013Committee meeting

David Burden

Foreign Affairs committee  That's why we're doing our multi-species survey and working cooperatively with the nations that have the same interests we do with those stocks in the Arctic.

March 21st, 2013Committee meeting

David Burden

March 21st, 2013Committee meeting

David Burden

Foreign Affairs committee  I think the American view on what the approach should be may be different from our view of it. As I said in my remarks and Renée addressed as well, our view is that you have to have really good solid research before you go in. We don't have a fishery in that part of the Arctic at

March 21st, 2013Committee meeting

David Burden

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, but again, at this point in time, Mr. Chair, there are no commercial operations in that part of the Arctic. We are doing our research to assess. We are seeing some of the things that you have identified. There is research in that capacity, but we're talking about fish that w

March 21st, 2013Committee meeting

David Burden

Foreign Affairs committee  Well again....

March 21st, 2013Committee meeting

David Burden

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not aware of any plans. I know there's been talk of it. I suspect there are enterprising people out there who are looking at it from our perspective and our dealings with the co-management partners and with the territorial governments. The focus has been to continue the truly

March 21st, 2013Committee meeting

David Burden