Fisheries committee  I'm not sure exactly where you're going with this, but very clearly, there's useful information from all sorts of quarters...people that are on the water. It's very important, but we do have to follow science. We have to be very clear with our goals and how we're measuring the ou

Fisheries committee  Fisher knowledge and fishery representatives have ample opportunity to participate in the process to question the scientists, in something like a CSAS stock assessment meeting. They are frequently, and have been for years, active participants in the process. I think we need to fo

Fisheries committee  Thank you. Absolutely, we have to follow the science, the best available evidence. With the CSAS process, our concern is about the timeliness of that information. It presumes that individuals who aren't in the room during a CSAS meeting, for example, have nothing to add to the e

Fisheries committee  I think that's an important question on the methodology. While we have a number of commitments in Canada around indigenous reconciliation, and including indigenous knowledge systems in decision-making, there seems to be no real clear pathway for inclusion. I think very clearly—an

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much for this question. This is a fundamental one, and one that is quite disturbing, quite frankly. As we know, forage fish are the base of the food web. They transfer energy through the ecosystem to other fish predators we rely on, as well as seabirds, whales an

Fisheries committee  We did an analysis—and I can provide the publications—on the timeliness of science information. Those fishers should have been well aware of the science in advance. But what we found is that CSAS has a policy on the publication of documents, and it's a publication based on transp

Fisheries committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and committee. Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this important work. My name is Dr. Robert Rangeley, and I am Oceana Canada's director of science. I would like to focus on three recommendations within the scope of this study, all related t

Fisheries committee  I was going to mention the indigenous knowledge. There is a large initiative under way on fish and western and indigenous knowledge systems in Canada. It's called “Fish-WIKS”. It's about fish and indigenous knowledge. They're finding that DFO isn't able to easily incorporate kn

Fisheries committee  The Atlantic halibut has shown tremendous growth. There were good management efforts put into place in terms of limiting bycatch and overharvesting on the Scotian Shelf, so it really is a success story.

Fisheries committee  I've spent small amount, three weeks.