Fisheries committee  And ladies, okay.

Fisheries committee  It's very timely. There was a report that's not published yet that was released from DFO. Actually, all the aquaculture in Newfoundland, first, is done along the south coast because that's probably ice free. Anywhere else in Newfoundland you'd have to be crazy to try to do any aq

Fisheries committee  All good things come in small packages, they say.

Fisheries committee  I certainly enjoyed it. Thank you very much, gentlemen.

Fisheries committee  I'm going to set the record straight. I don't want to leave you with the impression that we're a put-and-take river. In 1985, with not many fish in the river, we started stocking the river. That stopped in 1992. Since 1992 the river has been completely natural. There is no stock

Fisheries committee  Not in great numbers, no. There are not too many rivers in Newfoundland. As opposed even to Labrador, Newfoundland tends to be more of a grilse, which is your smaller strain of fish, rather than multi-sea-winter fish. There are areas, like the Humber, that have a realm of large

Fisheries committee  Right off the bat I'll say the government has to get involved, but I'll say involved with us. This is not a point at which you say to government, you know, put all these fish back, but we have to get back to.... We did have a program back in the nineties. It was called CASEC and

Fisheries committee  This particular river tends to be be more of a grilse-type river from a year-class perspective. We're not getting to 20 and 30 pounds this year because we built this river using the gene pool, I guess, of smaller fish. When I say smaller, I'm talking about an average of four to f

Fisheries committee  We're going to set you up with a better outfitter next year.

Fisheries committee  There you go.

Fisheries committee  It's an outdoor sport that people love and enjoy. We're seeing a very large move these days to release fishing. The culture in Newfoundland is that if you're going to take something, then it has to be fully utilized. If you're going to go out and catch a fish, don't put it in you

Fisheries committee  I would say right now no. I've had the great privilege of working with this conservation group for 31 years, and that's pretty well from day one in dealing with this river. In 31 years I've seen a lot of changes, and I've pretty well seen science slip a fair bit. I'm going to

Fisheries committee  Thank you.

Fisheries committee  I certainly would agree with that. I did mention in the preamble that one of my biggest concerns these days is climate change. Some days in Newfoundland it's hard to think that we're in a warming situation or the like. Of course, it's not only in the ocean that we're seeing thing

Fisheries committee  It's hard to know. Just as a little preamble to this, I should tell you that in Newfoundland there are no private waters. It's all public waters, so that makes it a little bit harder to extract the stats from it. I would expect that our harvest this year would have been around 4,