Natural Resources committee  On our consultation to date, I can appreciate that we're not directly involved with this just yet, but these can be located anywhere. There were two calls with DFO. We reached out to the staff at Marine Renewables Canada and had several calls with them to try to find more backgro

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. On behalf of the Prince Edward Island Fishermen's Association and the 1,360 captains we represent, I would like to thank the Standing Committee on Natural Resources for the opportunity to present today on aspects of Bill C-49. We understand the purpose of

Fisheries committee  I can't comment on the process on that side of the industry, but to segue or to add on to what Mr. Arnold just asked there, maybe CFIA is an agency that should also be part of it, because they're quite involved in authorizing both imports and exports, I believe. Are they, for e

Fisheries committee  The mackerel fishery is very controversial right now, as mentioned earlier. There needs to be more dialogue with the U.S., because Canada's gone into a moratorium, and the American quota hasn't varied very much, so, basically, it's not helping the resource. There are lots of as

Fisheries committee  It was very disappointing, because a person out of our office was on the technical development committee. We weren't aware, and it came across, and they gave a date when the existing technology would no longer be accepted and when you would have to go out and develop to the new p

Fisheries committee  I would suggest there is, yes. I think part of it is this: It's a self-regulating fishery, and it's not managed in the same way as commercial fisheries. There are tags issued, but it's spot checks. That's why a lot of what we're putting forth here today is.... As harvesters, le

Fisheries committee  One of the problems is that, because non-indigenous harvesters aren't involved in a lot of the discussions, we don't know. I can't comment on that. It doesn't mean it's a bad program. We've been trying for a long time, Mr. Hardie, to get more dialogue going among the federal gove

Fisheries committee  Chair, I have one more point. I guess, quickly.... It's more provincial jurisdiction, but there should be alignment of the fines for illegal activity among the provinces. I guess one problem, too, that we could have now is that a fine in Prince Edward Island might be $1,000 for

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  There have been several things. Probably one of the most significant ones was around 2017, I believe, when the platform changed. There was a working group between industry and DFO on this particular challenge—getting it going and implementing it. I'm not an IT expert, but that

Fisheries committee  DFO did.

Fisheries committee  I have four, if that's okay.

Fisheries committee  I think the tags in licensing should be reviewed. That could be done, I think. We used to get annual audits, and I think a lot of that's gone away, so that could be reactivated with a time frame and an action plan for the implementation of electronic logs. It was not meant to b

Fisheries committee  That's an interesting question. We are seeing areas change. Historic areas shift and things like that. We need to modify our enforcement and monitoring of those areas when things shift, not just keep focusing on the same areas, because things are changing out there. We're sti

Fisheries committee  I can't say that specifically, no, but we work with our dockside monitoring companies in that situation.