Fisheries committee  I've been following the planning process strictly here on the east coast. I'm not aware of the planning process on the west coast. I will say this is about 15 years of work, taking into account more than 100 layers of biological and socio-economic information.

Fisheries committee  Yes, I am.

Fisheries committee  I think representation is important and any marine-protected area network that tries to insure all the assets we have needs to be represented and stretched across the ecozones. Yes.

Fisheries committee  I will do that very gladly.

Fisheries committee  I think that's an excellent question, and as I said, I'm studying this in collaboration with DFO because everybody recognizes this problem. It's a problem we haven't scientifically solved, per se. I will point out that only some assets will move. Others will stay the same. For ex

Fisheries committee  That is a fantastic question. I absolutely agree that this is the cutting edge of protected area planning right now. I just returned from the Galapagos Islands where that very idea is entertained. They had smaller protected areas that are now linked together, and they are talki

Fisheries committee  I definitely think, to stay with the insurance policy, it's not a foolproof insurance policy. It depends on the placement of those areas. If they're placed in areas where no cod occurs, of course they have no effect on cod. If they're placed in some of the habitats that cod uses

Fisheries committee  If I could just add to that briefly, I think it's a good case study. Because the fishery was on 100% of the fishing grounds the stock collapsed to a low level that did not allow for recovery immediately. We actually had a talk by Jeff Hutchings on this very topic last night here.

Fisheries committee  I can second that. We've actually done work on nothing but global patterns of fishing and other human uses. You can do this in Canada and you can do this in the rest of the world via the automatic identification system. Enforcement today actually happens from a desk. It doesn't

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Chair, and my thanks to the committee for inviting me again to talk to this panel. As I had presented in May, I wanted to take a slightly different angle today. I always enjoy showing a piece of data, because it gives us a grounding in which our discussion can be base

Fisheries committee  Some MPAs work; others don't work. There was the study that Dr. Côté referenced about the five criteria that make MPAs successful and the follow-up study that I referenced—and will send around—about the importance of staffing and funding. If you take those two studies together, y

Fisheries committee  No. I think Canada has its own process. It has designated a process for implementing MPAs that's made in Canada. It's based on Canadian values and Canadian particularities—the strong aboriginal voice, for example—and the particular aspects of the fishing industry here. I believe

Fisheries committee  No. We just said “protected areas”, without really specifying how they would be protected.

Fisheries committee  I disagree, because I think protected areas have a broader objective than just reversing the damage of fisheries. They are also buffering against other threats. We've talked about shipping and other forms of habitat destruction. It's not just about fishing. I think it's a false

Fisheries committee  Alaska is a well-known example—which I have in the table that is in my presentation and in the paper I will forward—and has a reasonably good track record in fisheries management. It does not have a very strong track record in marine protected areas. It has not yet fulfilled the