Fisheries committee  I'm not a fisheries management person, but I can tell you that it probably wasn't all that much.

Fisheries committee  The long-distance migrations we hear about are mostly for very large species that undergo very long migrations. Tuna, being one of them, crosses the Atlantic on a regular basis a couple of times a year. Most of the stocks we deal with in this region, cod, flatfish, and capelin, w

Fisheries committee  Scientists are constantly looking at what others are doing. That's part of our training. That's part of what we do. Innovation is an important element in any region, because your patch of water will be different from the neighbour's patch of water, but we have a number of collabo

Fisheries committee  That's a very good question. There isn't a really good answer, because in every exercise where humans have tried to manage an ecosystem rather than manage human activities, we've basically failed. The biggest problem is we think we manage ecosystems, but the reality is we manage

Fisheries committee  Certainly. We did an assessment of the impact of climate change across the Atlantic several years ago. The expectation is that overall, the productivity of the system should in all likelihood increase. There should be more production during the course of the summer and in the sp

Fisheries committee  In 1990-1991, it was the perfect storm. You had a lot of fishing pressure and you had the coldest winter and the coldest summer. I remember being out on Conception Bay, and we had icebergs in August. It was a very bad situation. The extent of the cold water was very widespread. M

Fisheries committee  The assessments are done every two years. The surveys are conducted every year, when we don't have problems with the boat.

Fisheries committee  That's a really good question. I'm involved, and have been involved, with a program that actually compares the Barents Sea with the Newfoundland shelf to look at the differences in response. One of the things that happened off Norway was that the stock collapse, or what they ca

Fisheries committee  That's an extremely good point. As a comparison with the extent of the collapse we saw in Newfoundland, the only other fishery I know of in the world that had collapsed that badly was the Hokkaido herring, and that took 60 years to recover back to a reasonable biomass level. We'

Fisheries committee  There are a few things to clarify here first. The harp seal stock is at about six million or seven million animals, not quite 10 million. Since the collapse of the cod, the overall population abundance has doubled, so it's been a substantial increase. It went from about 3.5 mil

Fisheries committee  It was polar cod.

Fisheries committee  I apologize for that. In all these slides, we're talking about Greenland halibut, which is also called turbot around here.

Fisheries committee  That's a good question. We do normally conduct an annual acoustic survey of capelin in area 3L. Sometimes that extends a bit into area 3K.

Fisheries committee  Basically, rather than using trawls to estimate the abundance of capelin, we use an echo sounder that is calibrated so that we can get an estimate of the biomass. It's a commonly used method, used mostly for pelagic species because they have a swim bladder, and you get an echo th

Fisheries committee  I'll do my best to finish my presentation in 10 minutes. Thank you to the committee for inviting me to present. I apologize for the French version of the document you should have a copy of. The translation's only partial. The labels on the graphs have not been translated. We c