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Fisheries committee Not to be confrontational, but we've actually seen quite a bit of uptake in terms of the number of applications to us.
March 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Thomson
Fisheries committee Yes.
March 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Thomson
Fisheries committee We're still using it in the last two rounds of the buyback program. Applications have been coming in these last few months for it. Then we have started having discussions with area G and others as to how to expend any remaining funds at the end of this fiscal year.
March 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Thomson
Fisheries committee We do have a few programs in place, Mr. Johns, for a buyback of licences to provide some support for, particularly, trollers, should they choose to exit the fishery, to have some support for that. In terms of—
March 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Thomson
Fisheries committee It's probably one kilometre approximately, maybe a bit less.
March 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Thomson
Fisheries committee They haven't been involved to date.
June 5th, 2019Committee meeting
Andrew Thomson
Fisheries committee We would have to develop an enforceable morphometric measurement or methodology for distinguishing for that very purpose. It wouldn't—
June 5th, 2019Committee meeting
Andrew Thomson
Fisheries committee It would be a significant challenge to develop the proper enforcement for that.
June 5th, 2019Committee meeting
Andrew Thomson
Fisheries committee Yes, there is. It's a provincially managed fishery, so I think Mr. Bison would probably be best to speak to the mortality estimates.
June 5th, 2019Committee meeting
Andrew Thomson
Fisheries committee That is one of the demonstration fisheries we're looking at under the commercial salmon allocation framework that we just renewed. We have a few instances in which we're looking at...we use the terminology “small bite fisheries”: we know there's a particularly abundant stock in
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
Andrew Thomson
Fisheries committee Going to the question of allocation, particularly between recreational and commercial fisheries, there are a couple of fisheries where there are very clear policy directions. We have a salmon allocation policy that gives preferential access to recreational fisheries of coho and C
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
Andrew Thomson
Fisheries committee Just in general, there are 25 commercial fishing enterprises under PICFI. These are indigenous commercial fishing enterprises. Five of the 25 are in the Fraser interior area, in the inland areas where, as Rebecca was saying, we've allowed for movement of some of the access that w
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
Andrew Thomson
Fisheries committee Again, part of it, of course, is that it has largely been addressed as a free market, and people have been able to buy or sell a licence and quota. In terms of the concentration, we do know how much is owned by organizations, and we do track how many organizations and how many li
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
Andrew Thomson
Fisheries committee We don't track on an individual basis, no.
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
Andrew Thomson
Fisheries committee Yes.
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
Andrew Thomson