International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  I believe so, yes.

International Trade committee  I certainly see that an influx for lobster is more immediate. Having said that, our mussel processors are regularly on trade missions and things like that. I think we've made some inroads in Hong Kong, for example. I think the seafood industry is no different from some others.

International Trade committee  It would be 100% North American. It would be Canada and the U.S.

International Trade committee  One of the great things we did in the last two years is work with some seniors groups who work four-hour days. The problem with the industry is that this is a fresh live product. This isn't like carrots, when on Friday afternoon you can leave the carrots on the floor and come ba

International Trade committee  Well, a lot of seniors want to work a little bit, so maybe they can work 15 to 20 hours.

International Trade committee  Well, yes, the mussel industry is unique because it's a smoother process, and they do it throughout the year.

International Trade committee  Yes. With lobster, when you're talking May and June when we're fishing here, and then in the fall season, which is still ongoing, you're more subject to the peaks. We never use the word “glut”, but the glut of lobster that would come in. Throughout the rest of the year, we're imp

International Trade committee  They kind of work...it's two different tracks, really. Trucks are leaving every day with fresh mussels and lobster.

International Trade committee  Some are flash-frozen or packed. It's a process. It's a small percentage of the market right now.

International Trade committee  I'm a believer that the market will lead the way for the product. I think the challenge is a good one for here. There are only so many mussels we can produce, and we're almost producing them at that level. How the market may be changing over time is that there may be greater dema

International Trade committee  Yes, we had a briefing on it earlier this summer.

International Trade committee  The one aspect of it that intrigues us as an industry is that we always seem to focus on the recruitment. The retention is another key part. If we could find a way to remove the “t”.... We make the argument that 50 temporary foreign workers in Beach Point are keeping 150 local p

International Trade committee  We were up until this year. Like many places, a lot of our people who would normally be doing that job were in Fort McMurray or elsewhere in Alberta. With the downturn out there, there seem to be more of what we call corks, or fishing assistants, this year than there were in othe

International Trade committee  Probably not directly on that. As the executive director of the association, I'll say that our focus was really to try to plug the holes in the dam. We were more focused on trying to get ready to process mussels and lobster this spring. We probably didn't get down to that level y