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Fisheries committee  There's one owner-operator. I'll maybe answer first by clarifying a question earlier, or trying to. The land claims agreement speaks to allocations to the Nunatsiavut government, and the Torngat cooperative holds one of 17 offshore licences. I don't pretend to understand their relationship to the Nunatsiavut government, but it's my understanding that they're not an agent of the government in any way.

April 28th, 2014Committee meeting

Aaron Dale

Fisheries committee  I think there's cause for conservation concern in area 5, and that's reflected in DFO's decision this year to decrease the TAC—the total allowable catch—by 10%. I can't remember exactly what the decrease was in the fishable biomass estimate or the spawning stock biomass estimate, but I think it was in the order of 30-plus%, but I would have to check the exact numbers.

April 28th, 2014Committee meeting

Aaron Dale

Fisheries committee  I can add just a little bit as to how LIFO emerged as a policy position of the Government of Canada. I wish I could add more, but as Jamie said it has been unclear as to how that came to be a policy position of the Government of Canada. In 1997 with the shrimp resource expanding dramatically and I guess with intentions to include new entrants and to grant new access to the fishery, there was quite an elaborate process to develop those 1997 criteria as to how those decisions will be made on who was granted access.

April 28th, 2014Committee meeting

Aaron Dale