Fisheries committee  I believe we could provide the summary of the workshop that brought a number of scientists together to look at the issue of closed containment technology. I believe that material is publicly available. In any event, I will look into it to determine what can be provided.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Sprout.

Fisheries committee  First of all, I should just clarify that we will be receiving incremental resources, but we have not yet agreed on how to distribute those among our various functions: enforcement, fisheries management, science. That's being internally reviewed right now. We'll go through a proce

Fisheries committee  There is a very strong interest by some groups to move to closed containment. We have done a science review of that and have determined that economically there is no functioning, valid, commercial-level containment anywhere, that we're aware of. Additionally, there's a significan

Fisheries committee  We haven't made any final fishing plan decisions. We're actually in the draft stage right now. We've got a draft plan out for the Skeena and for all our salmon fisheries. That's under discussion with fishermen: recreational, first nations, and commercial. That will be completed p

Fisheries committee  Yes, it would.

Fisheries committee  I know they're frustrated. I know the individuals who have spoken to you are struggling. This is a fishery that was doing extremely well ten years ago. They had a very attractive fishery. It was very lucrative. It was a fishery that many people wanted to get into. Now it is a f

Fisheries committee  No; the product is sold in Japan.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  No. My understanding is that the product is exclusive to Japan.

Fisheries committee  There are other places that are producing roe herring--that is, again, going into the Japanese market--but I don't believe there are others that are producing spawn on kelp. I'd have to determine whether Russia might be. They have the capability to do it, but I'm not sure that

Fisheries committee  No. They hold nine of those licences, and the others are held by other communities or individuals.

Fisheries committee  The Heltsiuk don't, because of the rights issue. As for the other first nations communities, I'd have to verify that.

Fisheries committee  Well, it is a source of contention. The challenge, of course, is that in one instance we're dealing with a right—admittedly, it's not an exclusive right, it's one that we're trying to understand—and in the other it's not. I do take the point on integration. That is an objective

Fisheries committee  There were two licences held by Heltsiuk prior to the decision, so those would have been individual licences.