Fisheries committee  From my perspective, the most important thing that the members of this committee can walk away with—when you leave Newfoundland, when you leave St. John's, and Fogo, and Port de Grave—is the fact that DFO is not doing its job. The Government of Canada is not doing its job with ma

Fisheries committee  I am answering your question by saying the science is not there to answer your question about capelin in the first place.

Fisheries committee  I can elaborate on a point Mr. Etchegary made, and that is that when a foreign vessel outside the 200-mile limit is cited for illegal fishing, it's up to the foreign vessel's home country to follow through on penalty and discipline. When here in Newfoundland and Labrador we file,

Fisheries committee  No, I don't have a different opinion. I have the same opinion. Mr. Etchegary wrote a book two or three years ago called Empty Nets: How Greed and Politics Wiped Out The World's Greatest Fishery. I lent a hand to write that book. It's his book. But, no, that's pretty much.... In

Fisheries committee  I just wanted to add on to that by saying, you would think that, since 1992, after the moratorium was introduced and the northern cod stocks collapsed, the science would have increased to understand exactly what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again, but the exact opp

Fisheries committee  Sure.

Fisheries committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, members of Parliament, welcome to St. John's. My name, as the chair pointed out, is Ryan Cleary, and I'm the former member of Parliament for St. John's South—Mount Pearl. I served in the last Parliament from 2011 to 2015, and I spent most of that time