Fisheries committee  I suspect that some is. The federation has raised this to the provinces with respect to the licensing regime. It's not necessarily under the IUU, but we are certainly talking about how this is being done, what the consequences can be in a number of ways, and how it all comes tog

Fisheries committee  You can probably name them, yes. The same goes for where I live. Definitely we know that it's out there and that where there's smoke, there's usually fire. I think that's where we need to have an opportunity to have, again, those more robust relationships between the feds and th

Fisheries committee  Too often rules are introduced—in this case by DFO—when we haven't fully addressed a suite of rules that may previously have been introduced. I think we need to take stock of what we have and how we can do better collectively and move forward from there before we start introducin

Fisheries committee  I would say it could be used as one, but I don't believe it will be met very warmly by the industry until we have a reason to think—in a fishery that's done through effort controls—that it's going to make a difference. I'm involved with a fishery in an international zone called

Fisheries committee  I will take the last question first, and then we'll go back to the other one. I think C and P needs to have more resources. It starts there. Without them being well resourced, we're never going to get to the root of the problem. Having good presence on the water, sound and relia

Fisheries committee  As far as CRA goes, we hear a lot in the industry about cash sales. It is important to note that sometimes the cash sales are because there's more money involved. I saw in southwest New Brunswick and Nova Scotia this year in the fishery that cash transactions took place. These fo

Fisheries committee  I think sometimes it's a lack of it, Mr. Small, that leads us to have issues. Sometimes we're seeing that it's under-resourced, and there's the inability to get enough officers on the water to properly.... It's not just on the water—it's on the wharf as well—but certainly on the

Fisheries committee  I think sometimes it comes from the fact of building a case that is going to withstand the rigours of our judicial system. That is some of the feedback we get. I can't really speak to who it is or why, but some of the rumblings we've heard are that it has to be able to stand up

Fisheries committee  I am confident that it's part of it. It's not all of it. Certainly sometimes it's part of it, and then that leads to other sectors of the fishery thinking it's okay to just have a free-for-all.

Fisheries committee  At the present time, I don't see any evidence by DFO to allay the fears of industry that the information is going to be used for corporations to better understand how to access a fishery for illegal activities to occur. Some of that is paranoia, perhaps, on our part, but on the o

Fisheries committee  I'm assuming you're talking about more locally.

Fisheries committee  In the Bay of Fundy, yes, I am aware of fishing that goes on. I'm not going to say it's necessarily by my members, but it's certainly by people in our communities around the Bay of Fundy.

Fisheries committee  Too often we find ourselves, in the industry, in a position where we're having new things added to the fishery and we haven't actually fully addressed something that might have been implemented five, 10 or 15 years ago. I'm always very cautious about how we introduce technology.

Fisheries committee  No, Mr. Cormier. My comment was to define what IUU is to Canada, because it's not just one thing. It's very diverse and complex.

Fisheries committee  I believe the definition is clear, but I think what happens in the next part is that the follow-up on how that catch is being used is not being followed through on. Therefore, sometimes, in some instances—not all, because many first nations communities use it as it's intended—the