Fisheries committee  We're not allowed to do it in Newfoundland, but everyone else can.

Fisheries committee  Everywhere except for Newfoundland, basically. Like I say, their base length is higher to begin with. They have short-term leases; they have—

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  It's tricky. The basic rules are just.... With vessel length, for example, I built a new boat. She's 39 feet, but 28 feet wide. Ten or 15 years ago, a 45-foot boat by 20 feet was called a “super 45”. My boat now, square footage-wise, is bigger than that, but DFO is so stuck on

Fisheries committee  Yes. They could just invite people to their meetings. I was at a meeting a couple of weeks ago, and there were 40 empty chairs there. Why not invite people? We're not orangutans. You go in, you sit down, and you listen, and if you have an opportunity to speak, you can get up a

Fisheries committee  Because it's easy to go to the FFAW and ask, “What do you want to do?” Then someone from there can sign off. You'll see the changes in my last appendix. From what I could find out, they're the annual changes that they try to make. It shows who is asking for these changes. Most t

Fisheries committee  There should be general policies in terms of short-term leases, vessel lengths, and all those policies that aren't specific to a certain fishery. They should be uniform for everyone. The way you measure a boat.... Why should we be measuring a boat 10 different ways? Measure a b

Fisheries committee  I'll speak to that really quickly. I run the biggest social media group in Newfoundland with regard to the fishery, so I tend to get a lot of information before everyone else gets it. As we speak now, they're having the cod technical briefings back home in Newfoundland. I'm n

Fisheries committee  Yes. Once you read my brief and some of the appendices, as I said, they pulled three applications, mine and John's and one other guy's, and that's when Kim Penney and Duke Tobin and the guy from the FFAW decided they were going to change the definition of length overall. I can

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  There is a buddy-up arrangement. The way it works is that, in Newfoundland, you're allowed to combine three licences, so you can buy three enterprises and stack them on your own. You can buddy up for up to five enterprises in total, so if I had three and my brother had two, we co

Fisheries committee  My brother and I fish together. He owns licences. I own licences to work. When I say we fish together, we're not allowed to fish together, because DFO won't let us, so we have two different boats. I'd say we have spent about $1.5 million, so sometimes what's happening is people

Fisheries committee  Oh yes. It's always good to see you too.

Fisheries committee  Okay. There we go. How long do I have?

Fisheries committee  I just wanted to comment quickly on Transport Canada, but they're probably gone. They were here earlier. To make it easier for everyone to understand, the smaller boats don't fall under the CSI, which means that every four years you have to do an inspection on your boat and hav