Fisheries committee  Sure. That is almost all of those things. To clarify, it was 40% of the samples we tested, not 46% of all fish. When we tested, it was not what was labelled on the menu, or it was a fish that was not on a fish list...even if the waiter went back to the kitchen to find out the in

Fisheries committee  It's something we also touch on in our fishery audit, and it's something that we refer to as the “implementation gap”. What we're seeing is that DFO often has a lot of very good policies. It makes a lot of commitments to things, but the actual implementation of those things is no

Fisheries committee  Is that for me or Mr. Urbina?

Fisheries committee  We have some research papers that I can submit to the committee that we've looked at before on the global abuses. Certainly, Mr. Urbina can speak to that in more detail. Without a traceability system.... Right now, we estimate that about 30% of the global catch comes from IUU so

Fisheries committee  Good morning. Thank you for inviting me to appear. I'm the campaign director for Oceana Canada. At Oceana, we believe that by restoring Canada's oceans, we can strengthen our communities and reap greater economic and nutritional benefits. When fish derived from illegal, unregul

Fisheries committee  There are two large threats to whales. Of course there's fishing, and shipping is the other large one. There are quite a few whales that have died due to ship strikes in Canadian waters. There's a lot of work that's been done to understand that if we slow those vessels down to ce

Fisheries committee  Yes. I appreciate the question, because it does sound like the two pieces are contradicting each other: How can it be permanent yet flexible? On the permanency piece of it that we see, currently the system that is in place is done through either interim orders, which are general

Fisheries committee  I'll be interested to hear Dr. Fuller's response to this, because I think she works with harvesters a little bit more. I'm on some of the technical advisory groups and working groups. I do see a lot of fishing associations, fishermen and others there. There does seem to be inpu

Fisheries committee  In response to that, I think I'll echo what you've heard today: The system we have is working. The way I see it is that if you have a whale, you want to have a bubble of protection around it as it's moving. Obviously, you need to know where it is. Then you need to remove those

Fisheries committee  I would just add, on the good work that's being done that hasn't come up yet, that Dr. Brown does whale disentanglement. Almost almost all of the other people on her team are fishermen. I believe Martin Noël was here earlier. He goes out, and Robert Haché goes out, and they disen

Fisheries committee  I'll take a first crack at it and then send it over to Dr. Fuller. I love that question, because it's so important. We need to know where these animals are. You'd think it would be easier than it is, but it's not. Tracking devices have been used. There are some that go on the

Fisheries committee  Thank you for that question. It's phenomenal to me, when I look back to 2017 when we had this crisis year of 17 deaths, just how much happened, and how quickly. These whales were entering a completely new area, which we weren't expecting or predicting. Those fishermen in that a

Fisheries committee  It did publish, along with its decision, a document of about 60 pages that lists and goes through how it came to its decision. It is transparent in its decision—or on how it made its decision. A lot of it is based on uncertainty, I guess—the unknowns of what we don't know. This

Fisheries committee  My biggest concern is this U.S. MMPA. These are such important fisheries. They are our two most important fisheries on the east coast. We've had a collapse of finfish and a lack of rebuilding plans for fish that are in the critical stocks in the east coast. We have started to s

Fisheries committee  Thank you. Thank you for the invitation to appear before you today. My name is Kim Elmslie. I'm the campaign director for Oceana Canada. Oceana Canada was established as an independent charity in 2015 and is part of the largest international advocacy group dedicated solely to