Fisheries committee  That's the kind of comparison that's been done over and over again since we've been monitoring and surveying inside and outside, before and after. Over and over again we show that no-take areas very quickly rebuild populations, if given enough time, to reach a spillover of this b

Fisheries committee  It's Dr. Côté, thank you.

Fisheries committee  If that stage is the longest element in establishment, then I think it should be sped up.

Fisheries committee  Right now, it's really too long.

Fisheries committee  I don't think you can do any kind of extraction in a no-take area. If you decide to have no-take areas, you cannot justify fishing in there because the fishing is sustainable. You should see the presence of a no-take area as something that will provide additional biomass to harve

Fisheries committee  There are a large number of studies. In my speaking notes, which I've sent to the clerk, I cite at least six different studies that have compiled various empirical or modelling studies that look at the proportion of the total ecosystem of the ocean that needs to be protected to r

Fisheries committee  I wasn't part of the California experience and I haven't followed what happened there. I'm sure in the research the committee has done you've heard about programs like Marxan, which allow you to plan. Programs like that allow you to find the optimal compromise between protection

Fisheries committee  Definitely, I will stick to my guns. The disturbance caused by catch-and-release should not be occurring in no-take areas. If there's any associated mortality, we want to eliminate any kind of disturbance in these areas.

Fisheries committee  No. There's no other country that has a system quite like Canada's. I believe that the amount of exploitation that first nations or indigenous people in Canada are allowed to take under our Constitution would not present a major issue even within no-take marine protected areas.

Fisheries committee  I really think it means absolutely no take.

Fisheries committee  I think that in Canada we cannot do this but we need to be able to negotiate extremely minimal takes for these no-take MPAs to actually be effective.

Fisheries committee  It is an ongoing problem.

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much. Can you hear me okay?

Fisheries committee  I'll just begin by thanking the committee for allowing me to contribute to the study of the Oceans Act's marine protected areas. I'd like to give you just a little bit of background to explain my expertise in this area. Over the past three decades I've written more than 160 scie

Fisheries committee  Thank you. Can you hear me?