Fisheries committee  Again, it's a good question. I'll remove the politics from it; I don't have any comments on LIFO. I think what happens generally is that groups want to hold and consolidate their authority. That authority, certainly in the fishery, is the jurisdiction. The federal government wan

Fisheries committee  Thanks for that question. As I said earlier, one of the biggest problems we have and have always had in the industry is that great divide between the harvesting, which is under federal jurisdiction, and the processing, which is under provincial jurisdiction. In order to have an

Fisheries committee  That's a good question. It's an important question, because in the past, prior to the 1970s, much of the fish that was landed around the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador was processed at a plant at that landing site. As there became greater competition for that landed resource

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. It's a good question. When I learned of that—and I'm not speaking as someone in the political realm now, but as someone who's had over 35 years' experience in the industry—I was quite surprised. It was a social decision, a social policy made by the Pr

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Chair, and thank you, members of the House of Commons, for inviting me and welcoming me here today. I don't know what background you were given for me, but I'll give a short bio of my background in the fisheries. I started in 1979 in the fishery in Newfoundland and La