Fisheries committee  Well, there are always challenges when you're a small business owner. There's no doubt of that. However, for it to work effectively and for us to maintain control over the resource.... I've had many fishermen—and I use that word because it's respectful of our industry—tell me t

Fisheries committee  Well, being a small business owner, Mr. Arnold, there are a million challenges. Obviously—well, maybe not obviously—I'm not a harvester; I'm a “fishercrat”, for lack of a better word. I can tell you that when I go down to the wharf—and I work on the end of a wharf—there are cha

Fisheries committee  Thank you. Thank you to the committee members for the opportunity to appear today. I'm here today as president of the Canadian Independent Fish Harvesters' Federation. The federation represents more than 14,000 licensed small business owners, with 30,000-plus crew members, work

Fisheries committee  Fishing has always been hard work in a challenging environment, and harvesters did not always earn good incomes. But over many years, harvester organizations have worked diligently to conserve and protect our fish stocks, to improve safety practices and to put in place a co-manag