Finance committee  Certainly in the case of the lobster sector, I would say absolutely yes. It's a missed opportunity. It's a tremendously valuable industry worth well over a billion dollars. Productivity is at an all-time high in the industry right now. Prices for lobster going both into the U.S.

Finance committee  Are you referring more so around the sustainability of the stocks?

Finance committee  There is information available, certainly through the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. I'm not sure if it's fully up to date, but it's kept reasonably well up to date. I think the narrative around sustainable fisheries in Canada has changed a lot over the past generation, cer

Finance committee  I think there are several perspectives you could look at. There are several tools in the tool kit to deal with the labour challenges in the country right now, particularly with respect to seafood. It is a real challenge. The average age of a worker in the fish harvesting and seaf

Finance committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, and committee members. The views that I am going to be expressing today are my own views, grounded in my capacity as industry co-chair of the Canadian seafood value chain roundtable, SVCRT. The roundtable provides leadership to the Canadian seafood ind