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Fisheries committee I'll offer two. We've covered one of them fairly well. From a science point of view—and it spills over into management and development, obviously—it's important to have a very strong table and a good, healthy dialogue among all the parties, including in this case in particular
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee I'll perhaps add a bit more context. As somebody in the business, I would have to say that stock assessment information is always incomplete. We can always use more information; that's always true. That said, as Dave has outlined, for the moment we have our main emerging fisherie
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee Probably the program that would provide the most perspective on that would be the northern contaminants program, and that's not run centrally out of our department. The division of responsibilities with regard to contaminants, understanding processes that would bring contaminan
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee I'm not aware actually of what the trend would be in that. If we're thinking about human use of those fisheries products and the level of contaminants and what issues there would be there, it would be the responsibility of Health Canada and CFIA to run those programs.
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee I can provide a partial answer to that. We talked a few minutes ago about the Arctic Council. I'll talk internationally first, and then I'll talk domestically in a minute. There are some structures that are actually quite effective at bringing not only government representatives
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee Domestically, there is probably not a single structure of the type to which you allude. Again, I'm not familiar with how that previous one worked. Through the co-management agreement structure that we were discussing earlier, there are some good, strong science tables there that
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee I'll take a crack at that. It's hard to generalize, for the most part. Maybe the easiest one to answer is the bowhead, because it's such a broadly distributed animal. These are very large whales, and they range over a very large part of the Arctic. Generally, that stock now is co
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee Thanks, Dave. The department does have a program that is bringing some resources now to these kinds of questions. They are very important questions, and we do expect that over this time period—that's a little hard to define right now—there will be changes that we need to unders
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee I can maybe elaborate a little bit on just a couple of points. We are talking in these percentages about the extent of open water in the summer period. It's obviously still fully iced in the winter. This has been increasing over time, and the estimates vary on when we'll get to a
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee No. I think that's a good summary. We do have studies under way in the western Arctic area, and they are beginning to reveal to us what those population species' assemblages and abundances are. We have certainly not, as of yet, found what you'd see as a ready commercial resource
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
David Gillis
Finance committee The individual who brought the case was a member of a snow crab fishing fleet in New Brunswick.
May 17th, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
Finance committee Certainly the sense we have developed over the last few years is that the industries that we currently collaborate with in the established group of projects that we keep going with relief funding are generally in support of continuing. In our general dialogue with the industry, w
May 17th, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
Finance committee All of the work that we would do, and all of the work that we do now collaboratively with the industry, is brought into the department and is put through our existing science peer-review program. In fact this program, which is the basis from which we provide our advice to the min
May 17th, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
Finance committee In ballpark figures, the fisheries science program at the department is in the order of $82 million at the moment. The amount of relief funding that we are putting into this package of projects, which used to be funded with fish but are now covered with relief funding, and which
May 17th, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
May 17th, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis