Fisheries committee  I'm very sensitive to the regions. It was a change I made, as someone coming into the office. I made the regional directors general report directly to the deputy minister. That's a structural change. For me, as I've said, it's a recognition that there are times when what we do at

Fisheries committee  Just to be clear, our plan is on the website. The actual IFMPs are still being developed. I don't know that you'll see all of them up there on the website. What we did, and wanted to have done by the end of last fiscal year, was to make sure that our plan, our approach, was up th

Fisheries committee  Okay.

Fisheries committee  We are looking carefully and hope that we will have a plan in place—

Fisheries committee  I would say that in 26 years an awful lot has changed. We've brought in our sustainable fisheries management practices and we've started to manage with the precautionary principle. There has been a lot of study and work done on the stock. While a formal plan, as I mentioned, isn'

Fisheries committee  I must say that we're certainly following Newfoundland and Labrador very closely at the moment, given some of the developments and challenging shifts in some of the stocks. We may talk to you about some of the pieces. We have Jean and Marc here who can talk about the process. We

Fisheries committee  That was another very pointed recommendation the commissioner made. Actually, as we were reviewing all of the elements, the department pointed out the specific cases to the commissioner, because we were very aware of it. Kevin may want to talk a bit to you on it. What's so inter

Fisheries committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, thank you very much for the question. Resources, as you will know, are something that the commissioner pointed to in her concern about our capacity to deliver and ensure that we have a sustainable approach to fisheries going forward. It's difficult to pu

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for inviting the department to appear before the committee today. I would like to introduce some of my colleagues who have joined me. They are Kevin Stringer, the associate deputy minister; Mario Pelletier, the deputy commissioner of operations for the Ca

Fisheries committee  Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. Just to augment a little bit, the minister is quite right; there is a very active plan engaged, as you might imagine. I just want to let you know that earlier this week I had a call with all of my provincial and territorial deputy minister colleague

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Minister. What I'd like to offer is that potentially the wording in that release, frankly, was not as respectful of the committee as it might have been. It should have probably said the committee “may” as opposed to “will”. My apologies, I take responsibility for that

Fisheries committee  If you don't mind, I'll follow up on that. It has been picked up on, but for sure we'll make that correction.