Fisheries committee  I would concur with those remarks. We've also offered it up.

Fisheries committee  So far, no.

Fisheries committee  No, I would agree with that.

Fisheries committee  I'll jump in first, then. The Pilotage Authority and the BC Coast Pilots have been working with the coastal first nations groups for probably the last eight to ten years now. We explain who we are, what we do, and why we do it. It's also a bit of an education and a recruitment p

Fisheries committee  Well, from a tug size, and the noise from a tug in barge towing, I don't know for sure whether that is less than some of the very efficient new vessels that come through. I'm just not sure we have the scientific data to actually say one way or another.

Fisheries committee  I do. On the west coast, with respect to the resident killer whales, we were proposing that pilots' personal portable pilotage units, which they carry, could be adapted so that if you had an array of sonobuoys, we would be able to know exactly where the various pods were located.

Fisheries committee  The shipping industry right now is under so many fees and levies, including the pilotage fees, which most people think are too high, that with one more fee, I don't know if it will be the one that breaks the camel's back, but I'm sure we will probably get push-back. I think the

Fisheries committee  The difficulty is that there is not another port at the moment, anywhere other than Vancouver, that can handle the volume and size of vessels.

Fisheries committee  That would be a fair statement.

Fisheries committee  Yes, absolutely. Thank you. The west coast seems to be a little different from coasts across the country. We have a lot of communities that are building up around coastal areas such as the southern Gulf Islands. As an example, we have had anchorages in those areas for over 50 ye

Fisheries committee  I think there's been quite a bit of literature on that. We do seem to have a number of NGOs who do receive outside funding. On the west coast we do often wonder what the agenda actually is behind these groups. It's well documented. It's not something that I just suddenly brought

Fisheries committee  I have read it a number of times. It's not something that is part of my daily routine, because I operate under a different set of legislation, but I do keep abreast. I know what's in it.

Fisheries committee  Potentially, depending on how it is conducted, but we support the tenets of what is being proposed.

Fisheries committee  There are actually two parts to that. The two parts are those vessels under marine pilots' care and those that are involved in the domestic trade, such as the tug and barge traffic. The larger vessels under pilotage do have specific shipping lanes that they tend to follow. That i

Fisheries committee  The technology being used is going to go across the entire gambit, because we get some very old ships that are still safe and still meet all the requirements and transportation regulations, but they are not as technically advanced as some of Donna's cruise ships. With respect t