Fisheries committee  I'll answer that. Clearly it's not working because the policy that prohibits those corporations from owning those licences has not been enforced. That's why we're asking for those to be enshrined into law or regulation. These policies came out and they worked for a little while,

Fisheries committee  As I said in my comments, all of these projects we're not opposing. We're just demanding proper oversight and environmental assessments and responsible ways of carrying out these projects, whether it's oil or gas or any kind of aquaculture that's happening in our oceans. First a

Fisheries committee  It is 60% in fact.

Fisheries committee  I do. I've been a fisherman for 41 years, and I still fish.

Fisheries committee  Certainly there is more enforcement today than there was 40 years ago. However, of course, there are also more things to enforce. We still have shortfalls in enforcement in a lot of areas. Just in the last year, we have seen a stepping up of enforcement efforts in our area, wit

Fisheries committee  What we got at earlier was the enforcement of the fisheries licensing policy, which over time has slipped. The actual enforcement of the fishing regulations on the ground has not increased. We're starting to see a bit of improvement now, but there's much more to enforce as well.

Fisheries committee  The biggest shortfall we see is in the failure to enforce these licensing policies that are supposed to protect people. It's a one-way street. When those protections are lost, it's very difficult to get them back. When owner-operator licences are allowed to be sold to corporate i

Fisheries committee  We think the solution for dealing with that issue is for the Government of Canada to require the people who are using those pesticides to find the solution. These are newcomers into the waters. They've developed an aquaculture industry there. If they're having a harmful effect

Fisheries committee  Yes, certainly. Of course we would support any practical solution. I think we will all find out that closed-pen contained systems are the way of the future. The technology is being developed for that. At the same time that is happening, we have governments, provincial government

Fisheries committee  Well, certainly we see a link between outside corporate fleets, if you want to put it that way, coming in and fishing in waters that they don't have that local knowledge on. They bring in their fleets from outside. That's what I referred to in my comments about the independent ow

Fisheries committee  I can't point to any specific examples of that, but we do see non-traditional fishing practices by these corporate fleets. The effect of doubling the effort on fish stocks is one of those things. The traditional independent owner-operator fishermen fished their gear once a day an

Fisheries committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman. I'm Graeme Gawn, and I have been an inshore, multi-species fisherman in southwest Nova Scotia for over 40 years. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, no one can have more concern for the health of our marine resources and the sustainable managem