Fisheries committee  Yes. They haven't done a lot. They have what they call a large “donut hole” area that's protected, but it's relatively small compared with the area that's fished. Alaska as well as, I would argue, Washington, Oregon, and California rely heavily on fisheries management and stay

Fisheries committee  The TACs are based on the best available science, not on the exploitation levels. The assessments are done periodically, in either five-year or longer intervals. In some cases, yes, these are long-lived species. Most groundfish, as Natalie referred to with yelloweye rockfish, liv

Fisheries committee  I wanted to respond to your earlier question about bottom trawling. You do have to protect certain habitats from all gear types, including bottom trawling, and that has been done. We talked earlier about the extensive protection that has gone on. You also have to realize that b

Fisheries committee  You can't turn an observer off. An observer is on board, and they're monitoring all the activities. The vessel's electronic monitoring system includes GPS, hydraulic sensors, and cameras. If that system turns off, it is recorded that it's turned off. Enforcement officers follow u

Fisheries committee  In the commercial fishery it's excellent.

Fisheries committee  Yes. In Ms. Ban's earlier examples, she made assumptions that either there's perfect monitoring or enforcement or there's none. In our case we have 100% at-sea observer coverage on every trip for every tow. We have 100% dockside monitoring. Every fish or shellfish that's caught i

Fisheries committee  Thank you. In 2012 the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, on the advice of the Canadian groundfish industry on the west coast, with the environmental community, closed enormous amounts of area to bottom trawling. In fact we took 50% of all habitat types in every depth strata, f