Fisheries committee  Yes, I represent traditional fishermen.

Fisheries committee  They represent owner-captains and I represent crew members. They're the employees of those captains.

Fisheries committee  Yes, when the crab fishery goes, everything goes. It's the economic driver in our region, the Acadian Peninsula. When the biomass is good, the people are good and the price is good, things go better for the crew members; that's for sure. Wages are better. At one point, there was sharing.

Fisheries committee  First of all, there's the minister's discretionary authority. In our view, it's now being used in all kinds of ways. At first, the focus was resource preservation. We see how the current situation is, but we knew that the biomass would be very low this year. As a result of the decisions made, there was more pressure, more fishing for this resource.

Fisheries committee  Management is done on an annual basis. The FRCC is sporadic but is interested in crab, its management and the crab fishery in certain years. In other years, we see less interest on its part. It will focus more on other fisheries. I think there should be another mechanism.

Fisheries committee  Good morning. My name is Daniel Landry and I'm a fisheries advisor with the Association des pêcheurs professionnels membres d'équipages. My members are currently on the job. So I'm going to represent them. The Association des pêcheurs professionnels membres d'équipages is an association of midshore shrimp fishermen, small pelagic purse seiners, ground fishermen and, mostly, crab fishermen.