Finance committee  Currently we have funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation that will last until 2018. That pays salaries and pays rent. Apart from that we rely quite heavily on donations. We do a lot of project grant applications to do our work and we don't retain much of it. We do mos

Finance committee  No, we don't.

Finance committee  We have excellent partnerships in the regional district and the city. They're a bit cash-strapped themselves. The regional district supports us to the tune of about $17,000 a year, which helps us with the rent. In return we do a lot of stream assessment work for them and we do a

Finance committee  There are two components to what we do. The first is collaborative round table fisheries management. What we found is that when you have people sitting around the table from different sectors who have basic differences, and they're coming from an advocacy viewpoint, getting small

Finance committee  You heard $150,000 per year for one, although we could roll it into the $1.5 million. My original thought was $1.5 million over 10 years, which would be adequate, but I realized that this extends past the scope. So the ask was changed to $3 million over five years.

Finance committee  It's modest.

Finance committee  The commercial sector consists of gillnet and seine fleets. These fleets caught over 550,000 sockeye this year, translating into $11 million. Most of the benefit from this fishery is not local; however, there is a significant benefit to B.C. and Canada. Recreational fisheries, ac

Finance committee  Good morning, chair, and committee members. I'd like to acknowledge that we're on the traditional territory of the Syilx First Nation. Something amazing is happening in the Barkley Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island. People from different fisheries' sectors, first natio

Finance committee  Our recommendations address economic benefit by asking for directed restoration dollars that will create local jobs, increasing fishing results that will increase tourism to the community. A sport fish report showed that a 50% decline in chinook fishing results in lower GDP by mi