Fisheries committee  Just to clarify, as far as I know, the Canadian stock, like the American stock, is at its maximum level of productivity, at historic levels right now. That's not to say there aren't areas that are suffering. I pointed out the examples of southern New England in our part of the wo

Fisheries committee  I would say the top two impacts that have affected the productivity are warming climate, warming oceans, and the depletion of groundfish.

Fisheries committee  I will just add a little continuation to your previous question if I'm permitted. I didn't really address the crab part of the story. If I'm running short on time, I'll answer your other question.

Fisheries committee  We don't have snow crab really as a fishery in New England, but to answer your question as to what recommendations I would make, I would say at all costs protect the broodstock. If there's a simple answer to this question, it's protect the broodstock.

Fisheries committee  It's sort of a tale of two cities in that the southern part of the species range, southern New England and the mid-Atlantic states, has suffered severely from mass mortalities related to extreme temperatures. Long Island Sound is an example. Shell disease has become very prevalen

Fisheries committee  Yes. That's a very interesting story. Since really the late 1970s, the harvesting of groundfish on both sides of the border has taken its toll on both the abundance and size structure of groundfish. By “groundfish” I am referring to an assemblage of several species, more than a d

Fisheries committee  It's a very good question. It's important to make that distinction between the larval transport opportunity.... Of course, it's only a few weeks in a lobster's lifetime, but in that planktonic stage they have the potential to be transported tens or even hundreds of kilometres, de

Fisheries committee  There are several sources of funding. They come at different levels of jurisdiction. At the largest national level, we have the National Science Foundation's support, which is typically more basic science-driven. Then we have sources from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad

Fisheries committee  Yes, they absolutely are. I should add that there's considerable industry support as well, and again, for that particular program, from both sides of the border. From our side, Ready Seafood Co., is a big dealer here. It also buys Canadian lobsters for distribution. The P.E.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for this opportunity to be a witness on the question of lobster and snow crab migration. My name is Richard Wahle. I'm a research professor at the University of Maine's School of Marine Sciences. I also recently becam