Fisheries committee  That's okay.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. I think it's yet another tangly issue. I think it really comes back to markets. It's really a question of what the market wants. Certainly, in our instance, we have fishers from Fogo Island that fish all three fish methods now for cod—handlining, codpo

Fisheries committee  I think there are a couple of examples in the materials I provided this afternoon. I think there are some answers in those two particular studies. I would like to encourage the panel to collect the body of research that's been done on our ecosystem, particularly as it relates to

Fisheries committee  Sure, absolutely. I guess I'd be remiss if I didn't say that after 50 years of being together in a co-operative way, a co-operative model is certainly no panacea. Some days we think it's just an organized way to fight with each other, which is how it turns out some days. The

Fisheries committee  Of course there are a lot of complex issues around this question. We now live in a time when the cost to new entrants to a fishing enterprise is something in the order of a million dollars. I think there were some comments this morning about what's caused that, but that's where w

Fisheries committee  Mr. McDonald, I would say, in the absence of science and if we're going to manage any or all of our fisheries on the basis of the precautionary principle and science-based policy-making, we'd have to conclude today that there should be an absolute moratorium on capelin—today. The

Fisheries committee  We're very hopeful, actually. I'm very hopeful that the things that we're doing—certainly the things that we're doing with Fogo Island Fish—can be adopted and adapted by other communities. I think the opportunity for communities to participate in markets, to take products to ma

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. There's another one of these issues that we need to work on. We talked this morning about new recruits into the industry. We have lost about 60% of our fishers in the last 10 years. In terms of the conditions around that, I'd be happy to discuss it in more

Fisheries committee  Thank you. We are talking about the slide, and just in case you want to jump to this slide, I want to show you this picture. It is a critical picture in the deck because it shows the difference. It is a visual difference. These fish are caught on the same day by different catch

Fisheries committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair. Thank you for the opportunity to join you this afternoon and share some of our experience with your group. As you mentioned earlier, I am a chair on the board of the Shorefast Foundation. We're a federally registered charity. Our work is done pretty m