Fisheries committee  It wasn't on the agenda.

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much. Good morning, honourable members. We would like to discuss today the 2009–2010 snow crab sharing arrangements for crab fishing areas 24 and 23. My name is Norma Richardson, and I'm president of the Eastern Shore Fishermen's Protective Association. With me is

Fisheries committee  We don't know that.

Fisheries committee  That's 110 pounds per fisherman.

Fisheries committee  No, that's fine. We're not against conservation. Conservation is our main thing, but it's a matter of doing what makes sense to the fishermen, something they can buy into, something that's done in their words and their way, and not something that comes from on high down to their

Fisheries committee  Money. We need money.

Fisheries committee  We need more money for science.

Fisheries committee  We know it's not in our particular area, especially. We've worked with the Nova Scotia Fisheries Sector Council. They have a lobster handling video and brochures, and whatnot, out on how to handle lobsters properly. That's been shown in a lot of organizations. It's an educational

Fisheries committee  You rest your case. I guess the buyback is not on the table for us either. We have not contemplated it. We have not talked about it. Well, we've talked about it, but it's not on the table. Our guys feel like their enterprises are there. They want them there, for their children t

Fisheries committee  I'll go backwards and answer your last question first. We don't think it's accurate.

Fisheries committee  Well, they are better. And we've had the buyers tell us that as well.

Fisheries committee  That takes a lot of thought, and it's something we've been thinking about for a long time. I don't think there are any quick solutions to getting out of this. For the short term we need some stable pricing that's workable. We need to look at the economics all the way around to se

Fisheries committee  I'm not saying there are too many buyers. I agree with them in a sense, if it's a guy who comes in with a truck today and then he's gone and you don't see him anymore. But where we live, most of our buyers are there year after year after year, and we don't think that. The competi

Fisheries committee  We don't have as much of the eelgrass, or whatever, as we previously had. So it's very possible that is something, but the fishermen haven't said too much about it.

Fisheries committee  Oh, they have, have they?