Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  We have been speaking to the provincial government. It believes that capital should be unfettered, and therefore it believes that if Jim Pattison can make more money by transferring that fish to his non-union plant in Vancouver or China or the Philippines or Vietnam, it is the un

Fisheries committee  That was a policy, yes.

Fisheries committee  They are owned outright.

Fisheries committee  Some licences are held by individuals, some by first nations bands, and some in joint ownership. One of the problems is we say “owned or controlled by”; most of those licences on the B.C. coast are controlled. That's why there's only one cannery in British Columbia. It's because

Fisheries committee  Canadian Fishing gave us the statistic that worldwide demand for canned salmon is decreasing by 1% every year. What I would like to say, though, is that Canadian Fishing is the largest importer of canned salmon from Alaska. From Bristol Bay itself, Canadian Fishing imports 12% of

Fisheries committee  British Columbia's pounds landed have gone down and the pounds that we're putting on the spawning grounds have increased, so those fishery demands have changed. Certainly we land less commercial product than we used to. In Alaska they have what they call regional settlement deve

Fisheries committee  Alaska has an act called the Magnuson-Stevens Act. It basically only allows fish surplus to Alaskan needs to be exported out of Alaska. You can either export it to China or you can put it on foreign factory ships or you can export it to Canada. The fact is that their plants neve

Fisheries committee  Yes. As far as I know there are no foreign workers in the commercial fish industry in British Columbia.

Fisheries committee  I can tell you that.

Fisheries committee  PICFI bought up 15% of the salmon licences on the north coast. On halibut, I think it has less than 15% on the north coast. Our areas are different, so maybe Mr. Boyes knows what the PICFI transfer to first nations is.

Fisheries committee  I see Conrad has his finger on the button.

Fisheries committee  I think there were eight canneries. I was just trying to count them in my mind, but I believe there were eight canneries about 40 years ago, and now there's one, which is closed, so B.C. has no more canneries except for the small two-line cannery that used to just do sport fish.

Fisheries committee  Very quickly, we believe it's a three-legged stool. I was trying to think of a fourth leg, but I couldn't. The reason we tried to address this is that we need adjacency. We know that the Liberals at the Liberal convention passed an excellent resolution on adjacency. It was broug

Fisheries committee  Right. We need a few other things. That's not our ask of the federal government. Our ask of the federal government is to go and have a commission to see what happens. We need adjacency, fleet separation, and owner-operator policies so that the company can't control, can't tell f