Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  If you talk to all the fishermen on the coast, they'll tell you how many fish were around back in the seventies and how many are around now. No one talks about the number of females that are eaten. They go right for the eggs. As I said earlier, in the sockeye fishery, in the

Fisheries committee  Let's say, for example, on the west coast or somewhere, there are 114 vessels and there are 60 vessels that are fishing. That's an overall quota. It's a free-enterprise fishery, so for the number of vessels that go fishing, they catch what they catch and that's what they get. You

Fisheries committee  Those kinds of things are just a gun to the head.

Fisheries committee  In our world of gillnetters, trollers and sanders, we do very good quality control and we've been able to increase our prices in the world market. Over the last 10 years, there's less volume, so we handle the product with extreme care. We upsell our products in the market. We've

Fisheries committee  First, I will say thank you for allowing me to be a witness to the parliamentary committee on this very important topic. As you said, my name is Roger Paquette. I am appearing today as a representative from Hub City Fisheries, which is a fish company that has been operating on