Fisheries committee  I hear you. I think we need to do a lot more science in understanding the conservation value of what happens when we do fish soft-shell lobster. I know that in St. Marys Bay there is scallop fishing during the period that the lobsters are moulting. That has gone on for years. I

Fisheries committee  For the first part on what we could do better in fisheries monitoring, I am pleased to hear how much the inshore fishery has been worried about conservation because I've worked for a long time to try to get more monitoring. Whether it's video or electronic monitoring or better lo

Fisheries committee  I think you know that the COSEWIC assessments we do under the Species at Risk Act do have quite good terms of reference for indigenous knowledge. I think people are at least thinking within DFO about how to.... The CSAS, the Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat, should work on s

Fisheries committee  I think, number one, there is still a lot of racism on the ground. I'm not sure how many non-indigenous fishers hire indigenous fishers to fish with them. It sometimes goes the other way around in terms of licence leasing. Again I say that we do have to support the moderate live

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. I think the data from the FSC fisheries and the moderate livelihood fisheries should be made public. I think that has just been made public. The data from the moderate livelihood fishery in St. Marys Bay have been made public. I think we need detailed information on

Fisheries committee  I do think that we really need all of the civil service to understand what reconciliation is, especially in DFO where the pressure on the resource to actually do reconciliation is real. I don't know that there is a departmental strategy on educating staff on reconciliation and wh

Fisheries committee  I think there's a frustration about the lack of communication and being able to discuss issues that affect everybody, including the resource. I understand that frustration. I cannot speak to any programs per se, or very specific, dedicated policy outcomes that have happened withi

Fisheries committee  Not necessarily, except that I do know that some of the conflict on the wharf has been difficult in order to prosecute those fisheries. I think the question also is, where is the market for those moderate livelihood lobster? If it's to be exported, that's why hard-shell is much

Fisheries committee  Again, it depends on where the market is. If it's going to go into the same flow in the supply chain as the non-indigenous lobster, it depends on the state. Soft-shell lobster do not ship well.

Fisheries committee  I think that when the Atlantic policy review was being done there should have been an immediate rollout of what that meant for aboriginal fisheries. There should have been a rollout of education when the Marshall decision was done and when it was clarified. The department spent

Fisheries committee  I think that immediately trying to work with first nations on moderate livelihoods and understanding what was.... You know, the moderate livelihood is not black and white. It's different for every community, as others have said here, but allowing that to go forward in a way that

Fisheries committee  Maybe I'll give you an example. When the Government of Canada committed to protecting 10% of its coastal and ocean environment in 2015, I heard that at every single fisheries advisory committee meeting that I went to, every single one. I will say that I have never heard it said

Fisheries committee  Thank you, all, for inviting me to speak here today. I work for Oceans North, an organization that engages on conservation initiatives in Canada's Arctic and Atlantic provinces, in partnership with indigenous communities, as well as non-indigenous fishing entities. We support t

Fisheries committee  I think the examples that Joshua Laughren of Oceana gave are cases in point of where other countries and groups of countries have much better fisheries laws than we have. I think Bill C-68 goes a long way to getting there, but it's not quite there. I think two key areas, making s

Fisheries committee  So—