Fisheries committee  I think there is a balance. Again, it takes a lot of negotiation, talking to the stakeholders, talking to the scientists and the government, and trying to find out what works best for each. Obviously, this is not a simple task. It takes years to figure out what's best. Science ne

Fisheries committee  Again, our fishery is a non-destructive fishery. We fish with the pot fishery. For us, there are certain areas in which we can fish and target the red crab without endangering any other fish and with very limited bycatch. That's what I strive for as a business owner.

Fisheries committee  That's right. Each person, each stakeholder, has their own needs and their own reasons for protecting their fishery. You can't just quantify everybody together and say “this will fit everybody”. It's not like that. It's a jigsaw puzzle.

Fisheries committee  Absolutely.

Fisheries committee  Again, I can't comment on that. The only thing I can comment on is that for my competitor to the south of me, the Atlantic Red Crab Company out of New Bedford, Massachusetts, their fishing grounds were revoked from them. All of a sudden, he was out of business. Now they're in leg

Fisheries committee  Again, at that time we looked at a 50% cut in our fishing area. Since we spent the last summer moving around and doing more science, we've been able to find a bit more crab. We're finding crab in areas where, historically, there was never crab before. Of course, this one was not

Fisheries committee  No, I was not.

Fisheries committee  No. Again, we're a small business. For something like that, obviously you have to be up to date in your affairs, but again, being a small business, it's difficult to arrange that in your schedule. That requires people reaching out to us, not us reaching out to them.

Fisheries committee  That's correct.

Fisheries committee  That's right.

Fisheries committee  Again, as I mentioned for our EA licence, we are the sole harvesters of the red crab. It's in my own best interests to protect myself. I could go out, take five vessels, and demolish the population in one year if I wanted to, which was already done 20 years ago with the red crab

Fisheries committee  I can speak to that. When they were defining the SBA on the Corsair Canyon, they did take time. They were more than accommodating with our schedules. We worked quite closely with them in a very quick time period to try.... There was a bit of give and take on, “Yes, okay, you ca

Fisheries committee  Yes, they were—very much so.

Fisheries committee  Again, I was busy building our vessel and was in construction mode. The red crab fishery had been dormant for close to 10 years, so there was a lot of overlook on what actually was being fished in that area. I was not consulted directly. It wasn't until one of my independent fish

Fisheries committee  They weren't. Again, fishermen are very industrious. They're busy fishing. In order to consult with fishermen, you have to get to them on their level. You can't have a town meeting. You have to go and talk to them as individuals.