Fisheries committee  Thanks for the question and the opportunity. I've been fishing a long time, as I said, and through the late seventies and early eighties I can remember coming home from Baccalieu in the afternoons and late evenings, and we'd look out in the bay, looking over this way toward St.

Fisheries committee  There are a lot of sharks: porbeagle, mako, and blue sharks. I have seen mostly porbeagle and blues. There have been cases in the last couple of years when we were fishing with the handline and we just had to pull up and leave the fishing grounds because the sharks just wouldn't

Fisheries committee  There are a lot of fishermen who fish with gillnets and fish responsibly. You can fish cod with a gillnet in a clean fishery. Cod will hang out on fishing grounds where flounder or other species don't. In regard to landing quality fish with a gillnet, the reason I did it this y

Fisheries committee  Yes, it was 3L.

Fisheries committee  Yes. I've been at the cod RAPs in peer review. We're in 3L, right on the northern boundary of the southern section. When you go to Southern Shore and up in the Trepassey and St. Shotts area or St. Mary's Bay, the fish are not as plentiful, but we're on the northern boundaries. Tr

Fisheries committee  I think there should be more scientific study done on the capelin, because right now my understanding is that there's nothing done offshore. The science people are going to a couple of traditional beaches where a lot of capelin used to land—say Holyrood and Bellevue, somewhere li

Fisheries committee  I could talk for an hour, if you let me, but I know I can't.

Fisheries committee  There's one thing I want to mention, though, and that's the trust agreements, the controlling agreements, the owner-operator principle. The owner-operator principle is really, really important to my life and to the life of my community, because I have control. I'm an owner-operat

Fisheries committee  —and it puts workers to work.

Fisheries committee  Okay, sure. Thank you very much.

Fisheries committee  Sorry about that.

Fisheries committee  I just want to mention a couple of important things about the fishery we have today. I've had a lot of discussion with the fishermen in my region and across the province, being chair of the Inshore Council. At the council table there has been a fair amount of discussion about h

Fisheries committee  Thank you. First off, I'd like to say good afternoon to the committee and thank you for the opportunity to come and speak before you today. As Mr. Simms said, my name is Tony Doyle. I am an inshore fish harvester from the 3L region. I currently serve as the inshore vice-presid