Fisheries committee  The other question I have for you is this. In November of 2017, the department conducted numerous round tables and discussions with stakeholders to formulate what was supposed to be the plan going forward for closures. The industry or the individuals I met with seemed to suggest

Fisheries committee  Mr. Morel, my last—

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Chair. Thank you to the officials for being here. There's data from multiple sources that indicate the extirpation of the southern resident killer whale population is actually not in fact imminent. The population of the southern resident killer whale has fluctuated b

Fisheries committee  No, no. That's just fine. The current population is about—

Fisheries committee  No, no—I know. I'm a biologist. Let me make my point. This is my time. The current population is around 74 or 76. Did I hear you say that correctly?

Fisheries committee  They're in decline. They haven't shown an increase in population for how many years now?

Fisheries committee  Then they've either held or—

Fisheries committee  —gone down in the last 10 years.

Fisheries committee  Okay. Thank you. Reports from NOAA indicate the probability of extirpation for the southern resident killer whale, under current conditions, which would involve these conditions from the last 10 years, is less than 10% in the next 100 years. While other sources increase this pro

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much. Mr. Cloutier and Mr. MacPherson, thank you for your testimony. I'm just asking a general question. Based on the closures that happened, were there any recommendations that the fishermen were able to provide before DFO actually implemented some of the closur

Fisheries committee  That's fair.

Fisheries committee  I'm glad you mentioned the imminent threat to the killer whales again. I'm not going to disagree that there is an issue with the population of the southern resident killer whales, but your use of the word “imminent” suggests that if we don't do something absolutely immediately, t

Fisheries committee  Are there any management plan proposals that Ecojustice would be prepared to support that don't involve the complete closure of recreational and commercial fisheries?

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much, Chair. To start, I'm going to ask some questions of our witness from Ecojustice. Ms. Venton, the current closure of the recreational and commercial fishery zone off the southwest coast of Vancouver Island does not follow the boundaries that were agreed upo

Fisheries committee  You got the short straw.