Fisheries committee  Yes. Thank you very much. I also would suggest that you perhaps make some contacts with the groundfish fishery in British Columbia. It's a very complex fishery. It has a much higher species diversity than Atlantic Canada has. It has the same kind of mix of fishing gear and vario

Fisheries committee  I haven't seen great progress in that area. I'm also a little bit away from the game these days. Perhaps other scientists in the room might have other opinions on it, but from my reading of things, it's still a great challenge. It's important we bear that in mind when we're deve

Fisheries committee  Except maybe cutting down greenhouse gas emissions and a few things like that.

Fisheries committee  I think the surveys that have been referred to here, which have been ongoing for northern cod since 1983 and for other cod stocks in other parts of Canada since the early 1970s, are very effective at what they're doing. They're designed statistically to be efficient for species l

Fisheries committee  I was just supporting what Dr. Hutchings said. I agree with his explanation of the differences between what happened in Norway and what happened in Canada.

Fisheries committee  Yes, that was regarding when the COSEWIC reports were done previously in 2003 and 2010. The observation at the time was that there was no significant increase in the population. Things are, obviously, different now.

Fisheries committee  I think they're cold.

Fisheries committee  I think the recent indications of improvement are encouraging, but there is still a long way to go before this population is secure. The recent increases have been in less than one cod generation, which is roughly 10 to 12 years, so the increase has been over a short period of ti

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this exercise. I've been the co-chair of the marine fishes subcommittee in COSEWIC since 2010. In fact, the first report that I presented to that committee was on Atlantic cod. That was the last report that COSEWIC did on the speci