Fisheries committee  They are the laws that were put in place.

Fisheries committee  If you look at our neighbours to the north, such as Alaska—

Fisheries committee  It is.

Fisheries committee  Yes. Having fished up in Alaska for five seasons, being involved in the commercial salmon fishery, I would say they don't manage to a weak stock. They manage to the stronger stocks, and then they put enhancement to the weaker stocks to bring them up. If you manage to the weaker s

Fisheries committee  No. I'm not referring to this particular meeting. I'm referring to meetings—

Fisheries committee  I went there as an independent commercial fisherman, which is what my son and I are and the rest of our family is. When we went in the room and everybody stood up and introduced themselves around the room, one was representing, say, a tribal council, one was representing small co

Fisheries committee  I don't know the exact number of licenses, but there are more licenses on stick boats than there are on actually active boats.

Fisheries committee  I believe so. I think that would be a good starting point.

Fisheries committee  I've lost two licenses by not using them.

Fisheries committee  There are a couple of different approaches. You might not like the way I would approach it, having grown up as a fisherman and having all the hard knocks. I'll share one quick story with you. Running a boat in my early days, I had the misfortune of sleeping in. It was embarrassi

Fisheries committee  If you're going to have owner-operators, there are people out there who would like to purchase. If you're competing per se—like with what PICFI did—the reason the licenses are where they're at is that they went on the open market with an open chequebook. What do you think is goin

Fisheries committee  Back when I first started running seine boats, there were in excess of 500 seiners. Last summer, in the north coast, there were approximately 80 active boats.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the invite. I'm happy to be here. My name is Arthur Black Sr., and I'm here with my son Arthur Black Jr. We're both Namgis First Nation members. I've been a commercial fisherman with my previous and present family, right down to my grandchildren—they actually fish