Finance committee  Those are excellent questions, and being focused on the fishery consumption side is nothing to be denigrated for at all for. I heartily endorse it and recommend it. We think we are fish-eaters in Canada. We are not fish-eaters in the volumes that we could and should be, as some o

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Those are two good questions. You are from Montreal and you are learning a lot about fishery. The same goes for me; I do not know French well since I am from Newfoundland and Labrador. How can the third model be a better model of sustainability as compared with the quota model?

Finance committee  I think it is the best model.

Finance committee  Absolutely. I'll turn to English more quickly than Gabriel did. Absolutely. Here are my concerns. I'm in the business community. I'm seated at the far right of the table, and some will say appropriately so. I always joke that I have never been green about much, but I'm green a

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you for the kind invitation to appear this morning. Again, my apologies; I had a prior commitment some two hours outside of town, and I'm sure we could find you a house in Upper Island Cove if you'd like to have some additional connections

Finance committee  The ASP is a typical industry trade association. We represent the majority of seafood producers in the province, both by value and by volume. For the major species, snow crab and shrimp, we're close to 90%, so we're a significant organization. You've asked us two very important

Finance committee  It says, “Poor signs for N.L. snow crab. Official DFO survey results available early next year”. We know the world is changing. Stocks are going to be in decline in respect to shellfish in Newfoundland and Labrador and groundfish will come back, but these are the valuable species

International Trade committee  I would go back to the same answer we gave previously. We don't see a concern. I could address it from my personal perspective on my position on free trade agreements and whatnot, but I think I'd rather confine my remarks formally on behalf of the association in respect to the ta

International Trade committee  Thank you for the question. It's obviously a complex one. It's a complex deal. At the provincial level, we defer to the tariffs piece, which is the piece we look at in terms of selling—

International Trade committee  I was going to address that. We would defer, in this instance, to our federal counterpart, the Fisheries Council of Canada, which is based in Ottawa. We'll attend meetings next week, for example. They keep a closer watch on all the other aspects, such as intellectual property rig

International Trade committee  I would give the same answer. I appreciate the question. It's very complex, as you can appreciate. We're here to speak on behalf of the seafood industry in support of the tariff reductions.

International Trade committee  It's a good question. We haven't done the particular analysis because it's absolutely so difficult to do. You could have no change in exports or values in returns from the TPP countries, but there could be, out of the 40, 50, 60 markets we sell in, impacts from other markets. S

International Trade committee  With respect to the MSC program and similar eco-certifications, it is expanding in respect of developing-world fisheries, for example, data-poor fisheries. The standard is being developed such that it can apply to fisheries throughout Africa and other jurisdictions, where we migh

International Trade committee  Most of the membership is family-owned. There's one publicly traded company that's a member of ASP through some affiliates within the province, but essentially they're all family-owned businesses. Two are harvester-owned businesses along the co-operative models, but not fully co-