Fisheries committee  I think as Dr. Wahle just described, there have been some dynamic changes. The food chain has implications right along. How one fishery gets impacted or one species gets impacted can have implications far up and down the food chain.

Fisheries committee  Good afternoon and thank you for the invitation to appear before you today. Since I have appeared on a few occasions, I think you all know that the Fisheries Council of Canada represents processors across the country, many of whom also harvest wild-capture species. In my remark

Fisheries committee  Yes, that is part of the challenge. I'm hoping that in the action planning and the discussion around critical habitat the natural causes will start to be recognized.

Fisheries committee  For the right whale, we're being supplied by the fishermen here, so I'll leave it to them.

Fisheries committee  I'll let Melanie speak to the right whale, but for the killer whale, which we've looked at a little more closely, the seals and the sea lions are taking more of the chinook than the commercial fishery, and the unfortunate part is that the Species at Risk Act is mandated to look a

Fisheries committee  Thank you. I was planning on shortening my remarks because we're tight on time. I thank you for the invitation to appear today. FCC shares the standing committee's interest and concern about our endangered whales. They're amazing creatures and an important element of Canada's m

Finance committee  I just need 10 seconds and a real 10 seconds.

Finance committee  Yes, it's a real 10 seconds. Right now, there's the regulatory modernization for a number of key sectors, including agri-food. I will share our submission on that and I urge you to make it a key part of the report to make sure that there is political will to follow that through,

Finance committee  I was referring more to coastal ocean marine protected areas, but I know that it is happening in inland waters as well. That would be more under the purview of Parks Canada rather than DFO, but the same issues apply.

Finance committee  On your first question on the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation, the government just announced within the last week a process to look at options for how to position that corporation in the best way going forward. A number of people were appointed to an advisory panel. We'll s

Finance committee  That's a good question. We do have issues with that, particularly with the inshore fleet in Atlantic Canada. At FCC we represent processors and our members have offshore harvesting in Atlantic Canada. Because of the rules, we're not allowed to have any inshore licences, so I'm n

Finance committee  Sure. The primary instance, which I think everyone around the table knows of, is the surf clam quota that was taken away earlier this year. That decision has been reversed. A new process is slated to start next year. We haven't seen any signal that this new process will address

Finance committee  First, we have to recognize that DFO, with the new Fisheries Act, is going to have a tremendous burden on itself to write a lot of the new regulations under the new act. It will require resources within the department to hold the consultations that are required for that. It will

Finance committee  Thank you, Chair and honourable members. It's a pleasure to be with you this morning. The Fisheries Council of Canada, or FCC, is the national voice for the wild capture sector, representing processors on all three coasts and in inland waters. Many of our members also harvest.

Fisheries committee  Unfortunately, I think I'm going to be not as helpful to you as you would like. With respect to aquaculture, we don't represent that part of the sector. I don't know enough, really, to say what technology is better than another. I know that the aquaculture sector would like to