Fisheries committee  Thank you.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Minister, for being here, and to all of your officials. Minister, Clearwater Seafoods recently signed an agreement with several communities—actually, 14 Mi'kmaq communities in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador—on the future of the surf c

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Minister. I want you to know that, as I have already indicated, I fully support this proposal. It keeps jobs in my riding. Mr. Minister, earlier this spring, there were proposed cuts of up to 30% in the crab quotas in Newfoundland and Labrador. During that time, I met

Fisheries committee  Okay. The other question I was wondering about is that some of the people talked about the preventive approach, of course, and trying to protect their waterways and their different regions of the country, whether it's from the zebra mussels or other invasive species. What is bei

Fisheries committee  You also mentioned in your presentation the coordinated effort of Fisheries and Oceans with Transport Canada regarding ballast water shipping and so on. Is that something of major concern, or is that something that's under control, from your perspective?

Fisheries committee  Okay, thank you.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, first of all, I'll thank our witnesses for being here. I was looking at some of the numbers, Mr. Morel, that you referred to in your presentation. Some of the previous witnesses talked about how there was an uneven distribution of funding across the country for deali

Fisheries committee  Thank you. Mr. Demenok, you talked about disproportionate distribution of funds across the country and you said there should be more prioritization in terms of funding and where it should be spent. You also referenced DFO lacking a strategic approach. Do you have anything specif

Fisheries committee  Thank you. Mr. DeMille, you talked as well of the uneven distribution of funds and resources to deal with this issue. Does your organization make submissions to DFO for funding or on funding issues, and do they pay attention to your requests?

Fisheries committee  Thank you.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Welcome to all of our witnesses on video and here in the room today. That was quite a presentation from a lot of people. There are a number of questions I can ask each of you, but feel free to jump in if there's a question you want to comment on. I'm going

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much. Mr. Orb, you talked as well about the collaboration and co-operation of different levels of government, but the federal government could be doing more. From your perspective, what specifically would you like the federal government to do?

Fisheries committee  I appreciate that. I just wanted to know if you might have a perspective on that, because there seems to be a major discrepancy between what the people who have been fishing for decades are saying about the state of stocks and what science is saying, and I didn't know if you migh

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Wahle. What time remains, Mr. Chair?

Fisheries committee  Okay. I just wanted to put that point out there, because I am not expressing my frustration as much as the frustration of the harvesting community, in particular in Newfoundland and Labrador, versus what the scientists are saying, and get your and Mr. Lansbergen's perspective on