Fisheries committee  The loan idea would be great for fishermen.

Fisheries committee  The example I gave was that the diver didn't want to be in that situation anymore, so he went out and did it himself. There is that opportunity.

Fisheries committee  Yes. In that case, he didn't come to us for financing. He just started his own and asked us to buy. We agreed because we knew he was a good diver.

Fisheries committee  For sea urchins, it's a little bit different from regular fish. You never know what you have until you crack it open. It's like a box of chocolates. Basically, we pay fishermen more for quality, and we choose not to hire some fishermen, because we know their quality is not good.

Fisheries committee  There are. Experimental licences, and things like that, take quite a long time to get, submit and process. I know, for example, that there was a hagfish fishery on the west coast they were trying to get going. They had a lot of problems with doing the science and everything else

Fisheries committee  Is it yes or no? I say maybe.

Fisheries committee  Among unintended consequences, for example, is the question of what you do with generational passing down of licences from father to son. We have situations, with sea urchins, in which that happens: their sons fish it. How do you keep that knowledge in that fishery, then? Urchi

Fisheries committee  That is a good question. Sea urchin is a small industry compared to the other ones. There is a registry, I guess. You can try to look online with DFO. It's really difficult, so if there was a registry it would help in those cases.

Fisheries committee  Usually it's word of mouth. We do lease quotas from some of the bands up and down the coast, central coast and Vancouver Island—

Fisheries committee  Typically it's more the fisher finds it and then we give them the money to go and lease it or they lease it themselves.

Fisheries committee  Correct. In most cases we don't require them to fish for us. It's really up to them who they want to fish for. If we don't pay what they think they're worth, they may move. That's fine.

Fisheries committee  Thank you. Grand Hale Marine is a small-to-medium sized family-owned and -operated seafood processing and export company located in Richmond, B.C. It was founded by immigrants from Hong Kong. Starting with nothing in the early 1990s, we quickly became known for our quality sea u