Fisheries committee  From the P.E.I. perspective, there wasn't a whole lot of area that overlapped, but we did discuss a lot with the Maritime Fishermen's Union, because they did have areas that overlapped with the closures that were directly to the coastline. We worked really closely with DFO this p

Fisheries committee  I wouldn't say that there's no value. I think the question comes down to the significance of the value.

Fisheries committee  No, none at all. The scientific data that we follow are the publications that we've seen through DFO, for the most part. In discussions with Amélie Rondeau at DFO in Moncton, she'll talk about the normal travelling distance of a lobster being approximately 10 to 20 kilometres. Th

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  As a biologist, I agree with the protection of larger females, and we have protections in P.E.I. to protect larger females with our windows. We have a mechanism in place there to protect those larger females.

Fisheries committee  Based on the science and the numbers, what we've been told in terms of that window-size lobster and having a maximum size and anything over that is that it doesn't seem to make a significant difference. In terms of actual numbers, if we look at 2017, say, at 25 trips, we returned

Fisheries committee  I do agree with Arnault's comment on understanding the ecosystem better. I know in one of your previous sessions there were discussions with Matthew Hardy regarding the lobster collector project. To the gentleman from Maine with regard to the conversation about collaboration, I

Fisheries committee  Thank you. Today, the closures have had little impact on the Prince Edward Island harvesters, but considering there's really only two years of historical data, the PEIFA is aware their distribution could shift based on their food source. This shift could put the whales in direct