Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. MacAulay. I will speak to this issue. Your question implies, as some people suggest, that there are two different recreational fisheries, that there's an ordinary tin boat anglers recreational fishery, and there's a “commercial” recreational fishery, in the sense

Fisheries committee  They are in fact commodity brokers, who annually broker this commodity to the remaining members of the fleet who still go out and catch fish. I understand all the reasons why it got there. It's a very difficult problem for government. No party can take blame or claim for it, bu

Fisheries committee  Let me offer a brief comment on that side of things. The way we try to deal in British Columbia with those issues is that—again, in tribute to DFO—the consultative process.... Last week I was in a process aimed at rehabilitating chinook salmon in southern British Columbia. I was

Fisheries committee  This is fishing in tidal waters, either from a boat or from shore.

Fisheries committee  The Department of Fisheries and Oceans, in the British Columbia case, regulates only fisheries in tidal waters. That is where the tide affects it, so it's in the ocean plus the Fraser River up to the point where salt water meets fresh water and the rise and fall of the tide. The

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. You may not be able to keep all species for 12 months. In the case of halibut our allocation of 15% has meant that we've actually reduced what individuals can keep at a limit of six halibut per year, for example, in order to ensure that the fishery does stay open all

Fisheries committee  In our case, our immediate and urgent need is for the program that we have put to the government for the implementation of the vision that we've all agreed to. This would mean that we would have more resources to make sure that we pass the red-face test on catch monitoring; to ma

Fisheries committee  Thank you. I have to say at the outset that I'm not an expert on that side of the fishery; however, I am of course very familiar with the “no net loss” policy of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. I've been involved in a couple of projects—one in particular—to try to prove

Fisheries committee  Fine. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. It's our pleasure to be here. I'm here in my capacity as chair of what's called the sport fishing advisory board in British Columbia, which is an official advisory body to Fisheries and Oceans Canada composed of both lo