Fisheries committee  We have a number of management tools in place now through the department. You didn't really define “fishermen”. I'll speak on crab for a minute. When we harvest crab, we don't have soft-shell crab. We harvest all hard-shell crab. We don't harvest any females. We harvest all mal

Fisheries committee  The increased landings and harvesters.... As I said earlier, we don't have a Nova Scotia fishery. We're on the northern edge of the movement of lobster, so our fishery is very small compared to some other areas. However, there was an increase in landings. Landings increased from

Fisheries committee  Yes. On the purpose of an MPA, we have to realize that this one—even though there are other species there—was directed for lobsters, but if you want an MPA that is going to cover all areas, all fishing, then you would need a larger MPA than what we have. I'll go back to the impor

Fisheries committee  Cod is very migratory, and it's hard to measure if the MPA has had any impact on cod whatsoever. One thing we do have is a sea urchin fishery that is just outside of our MPA, which inside of our MPA does allow the sea urchins to continue to grow and move outside the area as well.

Fisheries committee  We've gone steps further than that in co-operation with DFO, in working with DFO, and even in our crab fishery, our snow crab fishery. We have closed areas for our snow crab fishery now, half-mile zones between the inner and outer, just to protect and take pressure off people jus

Fisheries committee  Yes, well any change is rough, there's no question about it. People resist, struggle. People assume that you're trying to do something to hurt them. I guess you had to start with attitude changes. Bob Wiseman was in charge of DFO in St. John's at the time. We had a number of me

Fisheries committee  Eastport.

Fisheries committee  Well first of all, good morning, and I would like to thank you for the opportunity to testify before the Standing Committee on Fisheries. My name is George Feltham, and I have been a fish harvester for 34 years. My family has been in the fishery for over 200 years. One of the th

National Defence committee  I think right now, to answer your question, in Canada, and probably in the world, Newfoundland is probably leading the country in the qualified people running their boats and the qualified in MEDs and that. I guess the answer is no, you're never to where you're to, but the feelin

National Defence committee  I don't know if we'll always lose people. We had a year when we lost none, okay, in 2003--

National Defence committee  --if my memory serves me correctly, in the fishing industry. But when we decide, whether it be offshore oil or we're going to harvest the sea, or whatever it is, there has to be a system there. It's going to happen. We have to develop a system. When we as a government are not as

National Defence committee  Yes, Mr. Chairman. In response to Jack's question, no, the $33 million is not too much. I've been fishing for 32 years and I know what it's like to be out there. I've fished offshore and I've fished inshore. Right now, I'm fishing inshore. But when you've been looking at four- o

National Defence committee  The fishery is safer, yes, there's no question about that. With the amount of investment that harvesters have put into it, and with the equipment they have, it's safer. But you know, all the training they've done has created sort of a false pretense amongst fishers to believe tha

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would certainly like to thank you for the opportunity to appear before the standing committee. Certainly the response time is the focus of my presentation and why it's important to our industry. Challenges in the harvesting sector from the waters off N