Fisheries committee  Let me answer the question as well. When we first found this out, that we had 50-50, I was at a meeting for groundfish when I was reading my e-mails, and it came out. Mike Eagles happened to be up on the fifth floor, so I left that meeting and went flying up there. I asked him w

Fisheries committee  Yes. It wasn't on the agenda, but I brought it up because it was in the minutes that we were supposed to have had some correspondence from the minister as clarification. So I asked where it was. Mike Eagles was no longer the head of it, but he was sitting there. I asked Mike if h

Fisheries committee  Yes, when it came out, because I asked what it really meant. So he explained it to me, and I said “woohoo”. I went down, and Tim Martin, from the first nations, was at the groundfish meeting, so I came up behind him and said that we got it--not gloating, but very excited. I under

Fisheries committee  —I brought it up. It wasn't on our agenda.

Fisheries committee  Josephine is correct. They are correct. We have been let down and robbed, and that doesn't leave a very good taste in your mouth, I'm sorry. We had been stable. We had been working very well together. We were putting our money toward science because we were integrated. We were w

Fisheries committee  I don't know if I would say the status quo, because I'm sure that others would argue that. They would say no, it is not status quo. We went from 32%, and you were lucky if you hit 38%. We were 32% and we're down to 30%. It went to equal licences, so they're going to say yes, ther

Fisheries committee  Actually we all have copies of the independent report, so I dragged it out, and I wondered what he was talking about. I went to it. It's a table. I started going through it and asking what he was talking about. It very clearly shows that 50% of the quota goes to us and 50% goes t

Fisheries committee  I can answer that for you. I was totally flabbergasted when at 4:33 on a Friday afternoon—I work from home, and what saves the day for me is I get it late when DFO comes out with announcements—I read this, and it said “equal”. That's okay, 50-50. The quota went up over the 9,700

Fisheries committee  No, this one is for ourselves. This isn't the DFO one. We keep track of how many berried, because apparently this is important. I got a scientist to sit down and help me form this log book. We want to know what this v-notch program is really doing for us, and in order to know tha

Fisheries committee  We don't agree with their model and how they think they know what's on the bottom. Fishermen do not think the scientists know what's on the bottom, because they say to me, well, how can they double it if they don't know what's there already? I understand it's a mathematical model

Fisheries committee  Yes, per fisherman.

Fisheries committee  We need more sea sampling.

Fisheries committee  We had a discussion at our meeting, actually, and there was no sea sampling because DFO does not have the money. Apparently, the sea sampling is very important for them to figure out what's out in the ocean. So we need funding for that. That would help. Now, that's just one thin

Fisheries committee  Yes, through v-notching. And what she didn't mention is that this is verified. We get an independent body. The fishermen and scientists may be there, but this is very important compared with the Maine fishery, or even, probably, Newfoundland or what Ashton was talking about. Our

Fisheries committee  No, it's actually very good. Our fishermen actually keep track. They have logs that they fill out for the association to track what's going on with the v-notch lobster and the berried, etc. I do a report every year on that. It's impressive. You should see my charts, going like t