Fisheries committee  I don't know if I could give a good answer to that. I suspect it wouldn't be unique for policy to be developed by any department in government and then for the realities of day-to-day management activities or priorities to take precedence over implementing that policy. I don't

Fisheries committee  We did make an effort to note that many of them are not money recommendations. We don't want it to be lost. We just don't have the resources. Something can be done now without additional resources.

Fisheries committee  Yes, that was something that was raised, particularly in the meetings related to the Nova Scotia rivers. One of the big concerns was health, maybe even related to things like aluminum. Perhaps the acidic rivers are freeing up some heavy metals that would then be taken up by the s

Fisheries committee  I'll get started on that. Again, I'll speak to the recommendations in the report. We were quite clear that we were recommending an increase in the harvest of striped bass, both the recreational harvest and the first nations harvest. We were recommending an increase in grey seal

Fisheries committee  To be perfectly frank, the committee did not do any investigations on that type of concept, so I don't have any information that I could put on the table based on the work that was done over the past year through the minister's advisory committee. I think you're right that ther

Fisheries committee  During the meeting process, we had invited first nations and aboriginal groups to come and present, either directly in person or through written briefs sent to the committee. We had a very strong and very positive response in virtually all cases. I think the committee observed

Fisheries committee  Basically, what we are recommending is dedicating additional funds for wild Atlantic salmon. The funds could be for a period of time. We didn't set an amount, but you know what can be available, I guess. Whatever is possible is what we would recommend We avoided an amount, but

Fisheries committee  Yes?

Fisheries committee  I guess what I would say is that many of the recommendations we have in that report don't cost anything, such as enforcing existing regulations on the land use practices and using some of the data collection opportunities that are there. For those, we don't need to ask if we have

Fisheries committee  I think there's an opportunity to build on the work that was completed. We spent quite a bit of time networking with all stakeholders and partners—scientific partners and resource user partners—to put the information and the recommendations in there, so of course we would like to

Fisheries committee  I'm going to answer a little differently. Anyway, I'm going to try. I think there's a lot of low-hanging fruit in those 61 recommendations. We did recommend reinvestment in Atlantic salmon, but there are lot of things that can be done that are not in need of additional funding.

Fisheries committee  First, for clarification, I am Greg Roach, but I am not with DFO. I was the chair of the minister's advisory committee. I'm very pleased to see that the standing committee is paying attention and putting some focus on wild Atlantic salmon. It's certainly needed. I will give an