Fisheries committee  I'm not sure I can agree with the statement without knowing the parameters of the fishery of which you speak, what the species is that is being protected, and what the elements are. If you're talking about an MPA, in the context of an MPA, MPAs are established for different reaso

Fisheries committee  However, if you're talking about protecting a swimming fish, if you're engaged in a recreational, commercial, or other activity, you have equal likelihood of capturing that endangered species, and it may not—

Fisheries committee  Again, it would be on a case-by-case basis. If you give us an example, we could follow up. However, generally speaking, I would think that most recreational fisheries, if you're talking about rod and reel fisheries or something like that, would not impact the bottom or very infre

Fisheries committee  That's a question we'd have to take back to our science colleagues. It's not in the—

Fisheries committee  I'm sure there is a rationale to the numbers. Part of it is the government's obligations under international commitments in terms of our overarching piece, and then the framework of how things are rolled out on a domestic level is determined by the government as informed by the v

Fisheries committee  Unfortunately I'm not the enforcement person. We do the resource management side and I think Darren Goetze, the DG of conservation and protection, was already before the panel. I can only—

Fisheries committee  I think the department has built in a strategy to not only implement the MPAs but to also ensure there is a monitoring and compliance component built into the planning for the future.

Fisheries committee  Yes. I could just add, as we've seen this year, there are measures taken under the Fisheries Act, so it's a stepwise process and they may or may not result in a longer-term MPA, which would give you the additional consultation. A process to establish an MPA itself is somewhat dif

Fisheries committee  I'd also like to point out the management measures. We had the flexibility under the Fisheries Act to do all kinds of creative management measures, whether they're closures, or size limits, or other protection mechanisms. Generally speaking, the management measures are more fluid

Fisheries committee  I can start off. There are a couple of benefits. One, as was mentioned earlier, is about conservation but also about ensuring sustainable fisheries and development as we move along. Each MPA is unique. The MPA in the Eastport area, which Mr. Feltham spoke about this morning, had

Fisheries committee  No, I work here in Ottawa.

Fisheries committee  You're going to be excited to learn that I really don't have a formal presentation, but I thought I'd take just a couple of minutes, to allow for more questions. I thought I'd take a couple of minutes to explain our makeup today. Brett and I are with the resource management progr

Government Operations committee  In the DFO situation, I think as we move more to third-party suppliers of services, it is all the more important to have a body such as the CGSB to provide that standard oversight and a bit of independence from the program, and to allow us to develop a national qualification type

Government Operations committee  I'm going to pass on this one. We don't use any other body for certification. Thank you.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, ma'am. We are satisfied with the standards. The content of the course is what changes annually as new things come on or new fisheries come on. But the oversight of the training—the rigour, the testing requirements, and so on—has been in place since 1997. It has served