Fisheries committee  One of the things gaining much attention in recent memory is water temperature. With brook trout and Atlantic salmon, which are cold water fish, the temperature is such that many of the pools are in critical states. There's now a mechanism where at critical thresholds we have poo

Fisheries committee  The report was edited by Michael Chadwick, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada was the support for that. This is the “State of Environment Report for the Miramichi Watershed-2007” from Environment Canada. With the Atlantic Coastal Action Program we used to have a component of funding

Fisheries committee  Well, it's certainly a factor. The erosion of fisheries management in recent years was a major hit—again, the appropriate management that we need to see in the river. That being the case, we are more concerned about the lack of credible science that's good to go forward. That's a

Fisheries committee  There is a great deal of concern with the increase of harvesting, the reduction of the wildlife areas, the deer yards, and the management practice. The entire forest sector seems very oversubscribed at this point in time. A personal opinion—and it's shared by most of our commit

Fisheries committee  I guess my point foremost is that we don't know, because they've dropped the ball nationally in science. There used to be a fairly significant effort of doing credible science from various agencies on the estuary. That is the gap that we would like to fill at this point. We don

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the invitation. I appreciate it. I got the invitation late yesterday afternoon, so we rather scrambled to put together something. However, we have had discussions previously with Mr. Finnigan, and we thank him for that audience earlier. I look forward to sharing som