Fisheries committee  In my view, you've just identified the key scientific question for northern cod, that is, is it truly one single unit or is it composed of multiple units? We have very good reason to believe that cod in some areas don't migrate offshore, that they remain in inshore waters through

Fisheries committee  Well, I would say, actually, that we do have a commercial fishery right now.

Fisheries committee  As I've said for a little while now, it rather depends on what society wants, and this is where the target comes back into play. If we just wanted a small fishery of 5,000 tonnes or 10,000 tonnes a year, we could do that right now, but if we aspire to a 100,000-tonne fishery or a

Fisheries committee  It rather depends on what part of Norway. They're caught along the south part of Norway that experiences incredibly warm temperatures, almost too warm, 20 degrees, 22 degrees in the summertime. As you go farther north, of course.... The waters are warming, definitely, as they are

Fisheries committee  I can offer a perspective. First, the stock didn't decline nearly to the same extent. It declined to about 10% of its maximum size. Second, Norway decided to curtail fishing activity at a time when the cod stock—and we haven't talked much about it today—still had a broad age a

Fisheries committee  I think 20 or 25 years ago, I would have said that I felt that the DFO scientific review of its work wasn't as transparent as it should be. Today, however, I think DFO's scientific reviews are quite open and quite transparent. They do incorporate the industry, the union, and acad

Fisheries committee  Well, in the last 20 years, none.

Fisheries committee  I think we should set quotas, knowing what the targets are and knowing what the parameters are for what we're trying to achieve in a fishery. Is there a role for fishers? Absolutely, but as I said in response to Mr. Morrissey's question, I think the science and the pros and con

Fisheries committee  I have not done a capelin study.

Fisheries committee  I can. I would suggest that what science can do in addressing any question is to provide advice to and provide analysis. As long as the results of that analysis are open and transparently communicated, and the science advice is made plain to decision-makers, to society, to fish

Fisheries committee  That's a tough question. It somewhat depends on who you speak to.

Fisheries committee  Well, it depends which fisher.

Fisheries committee  I've interviewed a lot of them over time and found some fascinating information that, for example, DFO never captured.

Fisheries committee  There were changes in fishing effort over time. I interviewed inshore fishermen from Bonavista down along to the southern shore, and I basically asked them questions about how they changed their gear and how their mesh sizes in the gillnets changed over time. What about the size

Fisheries committee  No. It might become and I would argue it should become part of a new management scenario, but it wasn't part of the management scenario of the seventies and eighties, to quantify spacial and temporal changes in fishing effort and changes to fishing gear.