Fisheries committee  Why is it important to teach children to fish using the old traditional ways? If you're out in a big modern boat and your electrical system fails, your battery backup fails, your GPS isn't working, and you can't get satellite because there's a storm up, do you know how to use a c

Fisheries committee  That's right. We talk about “sense of place” for tourists all the time, and we forget about sense of place for our young people. Newfoundland and Labrador continues to lose young people as soon as they graduate from school. Memorial University has wonderful programs that are ve

Fisheries committee  Right, absolutely. The very first thing, of course, is having access to fish, because it's a little difficult to teach fishing without access to fish. Once we get access to fish, that then helps a lot of other programs that we want to do. For example, in Quidi Vidi yesterday, we

Fisheries committee  Yes. That's tomorrow.

Fisheries committee  No, it's not associated with the school.

Fisheries committee  It's a community-based, volunteer, non-profit program. To address some of the comments that Mr. Cobb just made, it is true that it's a tangled issue to get into fishing. You have the provincial level, and then the federal levels—Transport Canada, Industry Canada. Then you have

Fisheries committee  Good afternoon, and thank you very much for letting me speak here today. I wasn't expecting this, so this is a very happy surprise. Fishing for Success is here to respectfully request federal policy and regulatory support for our organization to have access to fish so that we ca

Fisheries committee  That's correct.