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Fisheries committee I'd like to ask our deputy commissioner to speak about it, because he can talk about the connection between the plans and what is actually happening on the ground to make the difference.
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee I'm not sure what you were talking about with Kevin, so he can feel free to jump in. We did try to make sure that it was connected to science. The caveat we heard back from the scientific folks was that the moratorium was to ensure a bit of a break around that time when the fish
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee It is. Jean, you can jump in on this if you wish. However, one of the things we are seeing in a number of stocks is that there are blooms, or increases, and then they tail off. So just having open floodgates is not necessarily where we would go. The scientific advice was for
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee We can get you more detail if you like.
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee Mr. Chair, I don't find it facetious at all. I'll try to give you as straight-up an answer as I can. I'll start in the short term. This year, we've gone from 71% to 79%—and I have to say very candidly—we welcomed the report the commissioner did. It gave us an opportunity to loo
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee Understood.
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee One of the things we're working on internally and have talked about is disaggregating that, getting more specific on it. So you're going to see more movement, not just our talking about a plan for our plans. We'll have more disaggregated information, and we would be happy to shar
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee Species at risk and invasive species, generally, are a national focus and concern for us as well. We recognize where there are concerns across the country. It is something you may have seen on a resource question. We received funding for some invasive species work in the departme
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee Thank you very much. If it's okay, I'm going to turn to Marc, who can give some specifics on that really quickly.
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee We may tag team a little bit to unpack the question, if that's okay. The first part is a resource issue. I can't speak as much to the previous cuts and challenges from hatcheries being closed and the plans made. You'll notice that I focused on some of those 154 economically im
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee You're welcome.
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee As you can imagine, we've been very focused on what the resource picture looks like. I have to say that we are still unpacking budget 2017, and I'm actually quite hopeful that we are going to get some resources and support that will come alive for us this fiscal year. We're very
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee Yes, we could.
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee Marc, is that noted?
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee I'm really delighted you asked that question. What's different? I'd like to tell you a little bit about the structure and what I've done as a manager coming in as deputy minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. There are lots of different models and lots of ways you can manage t
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett