Fisheries committee  It's a good question. No one could have predicted this and no one could really have better protected ourselves from a global pandemic.

Fisheries committee  No market was immune to it. We're relatively balanced between food service and retail markets. We're relatively diversified in our export markets. We export to 139 countries. Yes, the U.S. is the dominant one and always will be for Canada. It's just a very painful fact with a gl

Fisheries committee  No, all of those three programs are still in the design phase. I understand, as the minister said last week, the stabilization fund is due to be opened imminently, whereas the harvester grant and benefit will take a little longer.

Fisheries committee  That's a good question. It is very difficult for anyone to answer. Obviously, all of the people in the sector would like these support programs to be announced one day and live the next, but we know that just isn't possible. The public servants in the government have been doing

Fisheries committee  We were consulted much like anyone else in the sector in the lead-up to the government announcing the stabilization fund or even the harvesters grant and benefit. Since they were announced, we have been deeply in discussion with the officials at the political level on the element

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I apologize for the poor Internet connection and for not being able to use the video. Most of you have seen my face before anyway, so I don't think it will detract from the deliberations. It's a pleasure to participate with you this afternoon. As

Fisheries committee  On that particular case, I don't have enough knowledge and information of the specifics to really answer the question. I'm sorry.

Fisheries committee  Whenever the science is presented to the harvesting community, whenever it suggests there should be a cut in the allowable catch, the emotions and reactions are going to be way stronger than when it's up. That's when we see arguments over which area should be cut more than anothe

Fisheries committee  As you alluded, our sector is quite fragmented and we don't always agree with each other. If you ask different people in the sector the same question, I think quite frequently you'll get different answers. I don't know how we can necessarily get around that, but I think one of th

Fisheries committee  The immediate outlook for those two species in particular is still relatively positive, so I don't have an immediate concern. There are other species that I think will face more negative climate impacts sooner, and we need to be concerned about them. I'm an economist by training

Fisheries committee  I think I could have perhaps gone a little bit deeper in terms of recommendations on those three themes, but with the extent of this study, I didn't know if you would necessarily have time to fully consider some deeper recommendations. In terms of the science, and how much more

Fisheries committee  For this particular species, I can't say. In terms of enough research and science for all our commercial species, I think the easy answer is no, more can be done, because more can always be done. It's very complex, and it's very difficult to know all of the interactions. Last ye

Fisheries committee  Some companies are to greater degrees than others, and it depends on their capacities to do so. The industry structure is completely different between forestry and fisheries. The immediate and direct benefits of investing in science are completely different between fisheries and

Fisheries committee  It's a difficult question. It's a good question, but a difficult one, I think, to answer as a whole, because I think for each species their level of knowledge in terms of stock assessments and things like that is different. Where there's a greater lack of data and knowledge, they

Fisheries committee  Certainly I heard similar stories with regard to efforts to protect right whales, for example. Even in our standard regulations that have been in place for years, there are certain windows in terms of retrieving your pots, regardless of what the weather is, so that could place ha