Fisheries committee  I think responsible use of the resource is a more—

Fisheries committee  It depends on the interpretation. I remember the first forum I ever attended in Halifax, and that's a good many years ago, I had an individual say they'd rather run a trawl than go through a bed of tulips. I'm taking it literally now, which she didn't, but I mean responsible fish

Fisheries committee  If you're a responsible person, and you're putting something in place that is going to benefit everyone, then the responsibility is to be able to analyze and come to some sort of agreement among the environmentalists and DFO and the fishers out there. That's where the responsibil

Fisheries committee  Yes. We face the same thing you're going to face. You face it as a politician when you go out there. You go to a community, and you have a meeting, and you get seven or eight fishers or eight or 10 fishers to show up to that meeting for a consultation process, and you have eight

Fisheries committee  I think there should be both. Our no-take zones have to be negotiated with your primary user groups. I think we have to come to some sort of a consensus—you'll never get a consensus on anything—but certainly come to a workable agreement on no-take zones. In your other areas, you

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  From my perspective, the first thing you need to do is map the fishing activity in that area. These records can be obtained, especially in the later years, and historically, there are logbooks and other records. This information can be obtained by working with fishers and with DF

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  In our MPA we have harvesters who fish close by or pass nearby, close to the area, every single day. The fishermen bought into it. If you went to Eastport now and DFO came out tomorrow and said we're lifting that closure, they would flip out. They wouldn't want it lifted, because

Fisheries committee  I had a friend in wildlife who was working at one point in time to re-establish the eider duck colony on the Great Northern Peninsula. This was a few years back. I said to him, how in the hell are you going to get that to work? He said, quite easy. Poaching was a problem with the

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  Yes, I agree. I said it's closed to all fisheries, but it's also closed to all other activity.

Fisheries committee  Yes, I agree.

Fisheries committee  Our consultation process took place in different communities in Bonavista Bay, but not outside it. It didn't affect anyone else, so we were limited to Bonavista Bay. We had open meetings, open forums; people came and voiced their opinions. There were people who missed the forum,

Fisheries committee  When you say “fish”, define “fish”.