Fisheries committee  I would say, generally, yes. I think it's improving with time. However, like I mentioned, I think the awareness of non-aboriginal people is important to work on. Now, Gesgapegiag stopped doing communal fishing a few years ago, but in Gespeg they do it. I know there's a lot of fru

Fisheries committee  I would like to add that I think monitoring is key. As you mentioned, there's an increase in seal and there's an increase in striped bass, but they're both non-invasive species. They were here before, and we have changed the balance of the ecosystem so many times, not just over

Fisheries committee  No, zero. That's why I was concerned, because we heard about it through the media and through some other groups in Nova Scotia and in the maritimes. I think there should have been some consultation. I think the risk to the wild salmon population was clearly minimized, but there i

Fisheries committee  It's our mission to help improve the co-management model. I think it really varies region by region. The model we have in our region in Quebec might be different from the one they have in the gulf and in different areas of the country. Generally the salmon in Quebec are also mana

Fisheries committee  Actually, the study I discussed documents Mi'kmaq and Maliseet ecological knowledge about 14 marine species at risk in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Baie des Chaleurs. The funding comes from DFO's Aboriginal Fund for Species at Risk and from AAROM, the Aboriginal Aquatic Resou

Fisheries committee  Yes, that's the case. Mr. LeBlanc might be able to say more about the subject. Quebec manages things differently. Management is done for each river with a watershed, and river by river, in contrast to Canada's other provinces.

Fisheries committee  Yes?

Fisheries committee  Yes. I'm sorry.

Fisheries committee  I had reached the third management recommendation, so I'll continue from there. There are risks associated with overfishing, not only in rivers, but in oceans as well. This overfishing calls for increased monitoring. I should mention commercial salmon fishing in the Atlantic, n

Fisheries committee  Good morning, everyone. l'd like to thank the committee for undertaking a study on the wild Atlantic salmon, and for inviting the Mi'gmaq Maliseet Aboriginal Fisheries Management Association to give testimony this morning. As executive director of the association, and as a bio