Fisheries committee  In the ocean, things really move. Most of the species we were talking about are migratory. Even lobsters migrate huge distances in our area. Something like scallops are going to stay put. The predators are going to be moving in and out, though. Personally, I think our fishermen

Fisheries committee  I think a variety of things probably need to be protected, but right now I feel there's a much bigger emphasis on benthic than anything else. I think that needs to shift.

Fisheries committee  They would be fishing benthic and pelagic species, but right now mostly benthic as well as lobster.

Fisheries committee  It's very spotty. A 10% target, if it's not in our most fished areas, is not a problem. However, when you're talking about an MPA in our most heavily fished area, which has a huge amount of fishermen and fishing in a small area, we really have to look at what the boundaries are

Fisheries committee  What we have found in the research from around the world that we have read on this is that MPAs have to be extremely large to have the spillover effect you're discussing. None of them in the Bay of Fundy would be large enough for that. Even in places where they are that large, th

Fisheries committee  I don't know about sea cucumbers. I don't believe they're MSC-certified. I'm not sure about this, so I hesitate to say. I know that our scallop fishery is not certified just because we don't have the money to go through MSC. The full bay scallop fishery, which is the larger-scale

Fisheries committee  It's really difficult, and to be truthful, our membership is really concerned about MPAs and loss of access to fishing grounds. They would prefer to not have to deal with it all, because it's something that keeps them up at night. Our biggest concern is that the small boat insho

Fisheries committee  We would really like to see a kind of protection that is about humans living sustainably in nature. I think we have a number of inshore, small-scale fisheries that are that. It's very problematic for us. It takes something like the herring weir fishery, which is an extremely sus

Fisheries committee  I think so. The other part of this, too, is that there has been a huge emphasis on protecting biodiversity on the bottom, these beautiful places to go diving. Here there's very little diving recreationally because the water is frigid and the currents are unbelievably strong. T

Fisheries committee  We've been involved in many meetings. I was at one yesterday with DFO on MPAs, and they've been more consultative than some other meetings we've had with DFO, which were definitely just presentations, but still not, I think.... They seem to be locking us into drawing lines on the

Fisheries committee  I can't speak for how they're engaging with the aquaculture industry. As for the fishing industry, I'm on the fisheries round table for the Scotia-Fundy region and I'm also on the MPA working group for that, which is open to all members of the round table and that working group

Fisheries committee  Yes. We have an experience with one MPA in the Bay of Fundy, Musquash, and Fundy North Fishermen's Association, along with an environmental group proposed the establishment of this MPA. It took 10 years to be fully established. It did involve some protected land on the provincial

Fisheries committee  I'm definitely not an expert in this realm at all, but I believe we're not clear on what could happen. I've heard things about cracks and gases being released and that sort of thing. Yes, maybe it's 200 metres down, but if we don't really know what the potential impacts are.... I

Fisheries committee  It's a difficult question. In our area, the place they want to protect is because of what's growing on the bottom, but it's also a very active scallop fishing area. The reason there's all this beautiful biodiversity on the bottom is that there are a lot of pockets of places where

Fisheries committee  Yes, I am going to speak for five minutes, and then Lois for five minutes.