Fisheries committee  Thank you.

Fisheries committee  As I sit here, I haven't heard anybody share anything about first nations since my sharing. I don't know if anybody heard me. One thing I would like to say is that if I could ask for any kind of change, it's to somehow help us first nations and the coastal people. I hear you ta

Fisheries committee  The licensing system that is available for us in first nations is through PICFI, so don't give us a band-aid program and tell me it's going to be okay. You may as well give me an aspirin, and I'll put it on top of my head. That's about how much help that's going to be. In terms

Fisheries committee  I just want to share that, with the sport one.... I don't want there to be a big argument, but, you know, if my licence is the same, I can go out and all I can catch is salmon. If you have a sport licence and you leave Ottawa and get out on a boat, you can fish clams, herring, ha

Fisheries committee  I've seen the problems with the sea lions. I'm on a herring advisory committee also, and I asked the scientific guy how much the seals eat in the Gulf of Georgia. It's 5,000 tonnes a year. However, the sea lions are a problem.

Fisheries committee  They want to close herring because the fish, when they're crapping and flushing their toilets...but there are 1,000 sea lions crapping all over the shellfish. So yes.

Fisheries committee  Were you talking about the prices for salmon, for instance, or the prices in the market? I've been fishing all these years. Forty years ago, I was getting 30¢ for pinks. I'm getting 30¢ for pinks 40 years later. I have no control over what I'm going to get paid because I'm sittin

Fisheries committee  I hope I didn't speak too fast or....

Fisheries committee  [Witness spoke in Kwakwala] [English] I'm a first nations fisher from Alert Bay. I was born December 25, 1942 and I've been fishing as a commercial fisherman since I was 13 years old. What I have here today and what I am about to do is to share with you from my heart. Do you