Fisheries committee  Since 1981.

Fisheries committee  We produce in the neighbourhood of 1.4 million chinook salmon, in the neighbourhood of 375,000 coho, and around 800,000 to a million chum. In some years we will produce pink salmon. Historically we have produced some freshwater fish—brook trout, cutthroat trout—for the freshwater fishery.

Fisheries committee  From my perspective and from the different forums I've been involved in, when aquaculture blew up to be a very politically sensitive issue, it very clearly seemed advantageous for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to acknowledge that it was a provincial issue. Then we got to a point in time when it was clear that ownership of aquaculture was going to shift back to the jurisdictional control of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

Fisheries committee  I didn't have an opportunity. Powell River is a difficult place to get from, so I didn't personally have an opportunity. Other people I know who are involved in other associations did have a chance to get involved, but we've yet to see what the final product will look like relative to the input that was given.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You probably don't have to set the timer for me. I don't intend to speak at great length. At this particular meeting, I represent the Powell River Salmon Society, out of Powell River of course. We're a small CEDP hatchery, a community economic development program hatchery, funded under the overall salmon enhancement program.