Fisheries committee  Yes. When the local club kind of got started, we had a lot of trouble with the local sport fishermen. Basically, they thought we were killing everything we caught. They didn't realize that a trap-net allows you to pick the type of fish you have. It allows you to pick the size of

Fisheries committee  It's the one your brothers chase you with.

Fisheries committee  She goes on the boats—her brother more, but she goes on the boats and her brother takes them and chases her with them.

Fisheries committee  I think in the last 10 years we're seeing more lamprey in southern Lake Huron than we had, say, 10 years ago. When we fish in the wintertime, we fish probably about 25 miles north of Sarnia. We get right in the middle of the lake, so it would be pretty much straight off Bayfield

Fisheries committee  We used to put them in formaldehyde and ship them off to the sea lamprey control in Sault Ste. Marie. Funding was cut for that for the southern half, so now we cut them in half. We make sure they don't go back alive. We used to put them in formaldehyde, and then they would study

Fisheries committee  Maybe I can throw things at you.

Fisheries committee  In Lake Huron the perch quota has actually gone up in the last 10 to 15 years. Back in the early nineties, perch quota was at its lowest for different reasons; nobody really knows why. Some of the fishermen blame it on some of the restocking of lake trout. I think it was differen

Fisheries committee  I honestly haven't heard about any of the conditions you're talking about. Ten or twelve years ago I was part of the fishing element with the CMAC, and they were talking back then about the different things they were going to bring in with the freighters, exchanging ballast water

Fisheries committee  I do. I think if we can stop—and I know you guys probably know the number better than I do—however many they say come in every year.... If we could at least get that number way down, we'd have a lot better chance of not having the next zebra mussel or something like that come in

Fisheries committee  Come and visit me and I'll show you first-hand what it tastes like. Thank you.

Fisheries committee  We're part of the Ontario Commercial Fisheries Association, so as part of the whole association we deal with it together.

Fisheries committee  Very much so. Very scared. The further north you go on Lake Huron...the lamprey has a bigger effect the further north you go. We still see the lamprey effect in southern Lake Huron. In the wintertime we can get three or four lamprey per day attached to the fish, where if you go u

Fisheries committee  When the VHS came in, they took away our live industry, because we were not allowed to transport water or fish from one body to another body. It hurt us. It basically took our whole live fishery away. It really hurt the bait industry, because they were catching bait from one lake

Fisheries committee  Exactly; that's what it was.

Fisheries committee  They said the fish can carry it; the water can carry it; it can be on a duck's feather.