Fisheries committee  No, we don't know that. I don't think so, no.

Fisheries committee  There may have been another native licence after--there may have been. There are 60-some licences.

Fisheries committee  I did the survey. I was the only one to complete the survey that year, and I think Herbie Nash completed his. Herbie and Robert Truckair want to come up next week to set the political interference straight. They're two fishermen who want to come up, if they can.

Fisheries committee  In the first years the lobster fishermen in Cape Breton got permits, not quotas. They were allotted 5,000 pounds or 10,000 pounds. I bought an old wooden boat, which I still have. Hopefully I can soon get my own boat, a good boat that will stand it. They would put 5,000 pounds o

Fisheries committee  It's because I'm not that good with paperwork and things like that and I can't speak as good as John can. He's a professional and I'm a fisherman, so that's why I did that.

Fisheries committee  I can't understand that. Excuse me.

Fisheries committee  I didn't get that word. What did you say? It's still not working. It's not working.

Fisheries committee  That's true to an extent. When I started this process to explore the slope at the edge, I was told by different DFO officials that if I found crab offshore 100 or 140 miles, where no one's ever fished before, they could issue me a licence in a company name. So I didn't know the l

Fisheries committee  Yes. The way the fishery started, there was an offshore fishery for zones A, B, and C, and the farther you go out the higher the number. We were put out in the D zone. Basically, that year each association.... There were nine associations, and in the infancy of the fishery we w

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  They gave 700 licences out--

Fisheries committee  Yes. Can I have some time?

Fisheries committee  I'd just like to let the committee know that the main reason why I've come here is to set the record straight, because people have been saying some pretty bad things about me. I have five kids and a wife. My wife had a heart attack concerning probably most of this. And if it wasn