Fisheries committee  In my opinion, no. I work on the boats. I collect the information. I'm inputting the information through my work, but when it's received at DFO, it's just being archived. I think people are crying out for science. Fishermen pay out of their pockets thousands and thousands and tho

Fisheries committee  It's just being archived. It's crazy this has to happen, but I haven't seen anything—

Fisheries committee  I think there are people who are mobilizing to articulate this some.... The BC Young Fishermen's Network is newly formed.

Fisheries committee  Oh, I'd say a couple of months. We've just started. I think it came from talks over the last year. They had their first gathering this year. We've been getting help from the Alaska Young Fishermen's Network about how to come at it. We're starting it. It's going to have chapters

Fisheries committee  Yes. The first gathering was in February.

Fisheries committee  Yes, I believe so. We knew we wanted to start towards that.

Fisheries committee  I think a big part of it, too, that I've heard echoed and that I'm strongly advocating for, is changing the negative perception of commercial fishing and showing people the positives in it.

Fisheries committee  Well, I look at maybe what the perception of fishermen in Alaska is, or on the east coast, compared with the perception of the general public of what fishermen do and what their job entails on the west coast. I've seen that be very, very different. I think putting that out there

Fisheries committee  I think it comes from...and I've heard this. If you ask the mandate of someone who's a fish and game and wildlife worker, i.e., what is their purpose, they can list it off really quickly. Within that is to protect and enhance the livelihood of fishermen. If you ask someone who's

Fisheries committee  It's more of a precautionary “against” instead of a working “with”. I just figure, man, wouldn't it be great if we had more industry projects, if we had people working more closely together? I think that's what it was maybe 20 or 30 years ago, from what I hear from people, but

Fisheries committee  Thank you.

Fisheries committee  Personally, I would love to have people involved in stakeholder community meetings and just really pounding the pavement and understanding what.... There's such a wealth of information that pounding the pavement and understanding what to do—

Fisheries committee  I've never met anybody in the west coast industry who doesn't have the same feelings, but I know there are other people out there. What about you, Cailyn?

Fisheries committee  It's one we could look into.

Fisheries committee  It's not going to be a short-term solution. It's very long-term, beginning with taking a really hard look at what the policy is. It means doing an independent review and really getting a good understanding of this web that's been created, I guess. Lots of those people who are arm