Fisheries committee  I'm not sure exactly how it would be implemented. Are you suggesting that the government is going to say that we have to sell our licences? You're going to force us to get rid of our licences?

Fisheries committee  I find it hard to answer that question, really, because I can't conceive that the government would require companies that have provided good jobs and good income to fishermen and have lived by the rules.... That you would come along and say, “I'm going to take away the large part

Fisheries committee  I know.

Fisheries committee  How much of it is processed where?

Fisheries committee  For our company, 100% of the fish we land in British Columbia is processed in British Columbia.

Fisheries committee  I would say that's true for most of the companies in B.C. It's a very small part that is exported somewhere else for processing.

Fisheries committee  I can't really answer that question. I don't see it happening. I don't see the need for it. I don't see that there's any evidence that the current system is not working properly. Our company is in the business of trying to make money for our investor. We would readjust our busi

Fisheries committee  Yes. For example, on a cost-per-case basis for a case of salmon, the labour cost in Alaska is about one-third of what it is in B.C. B.C. is a very high-cost place to live. We pay our shoreworkers very good wages, and we're happy to do that, but the difficulty is that in Alaska,

Fisheries committee  It's interesting that you should ask, because I mentioned that Canfisco owns 2% of the halibut quota. That is halibut quota that we were grandfathered into by the ownership of vessels we had at the time the system came into effect. We have not bought a single pound of halibut quo

Fisheries committee  In terms of processing plants in British Columbia, as indicated, we could go back and say there should be a plant in every community, whether it's a local first nations community or somewhere else. In 1919, there were 97 canneries in B.C. They employed 9,000 workers. Most of thos

Fisheries committee  Alaska has a very extensive program in this regard. Some of the facilities are run by private non-profit community organizations that will own a series of pink and chum salmon hatcheries. They are very aggressively expanding production in those two species, to the point where, in

Fisheries committee  I think it's an opportunity that should be discussed and pursued with communities up and down the coast, yes.

Fisheries committee  That's correct.

Fisheries committee  Well, because it suits their story. I'm giving you the facts. I know what the numbers are. Clearly, we own a higher proportion of the licences in the seine sector of the industry, but we own none of the troll licences and a few of the gillnet licences. There are three gillnet l

Fisheries committee  Some of the seine licences, we do own in.... The licences here are on the vessel. Some of the vessels are multiple-licensed. There may be two licences on a seine vessel, and we might own the two licences fifty-fifty with a joint venture partner. For example, in the salmon secto