Fisheries committee  I had the pleasure of visiting one of the largest processors on Vancouver Island when we were doing market research. One of the boats had just come in from fishing for hake off Cape Lazo. Last May they had a delivery, to that date, of 12 million pounds. You can adjust that leve

Fisheries committee  Yes. It balances it out.

Fisheries committee  You would see a measurable.... Mind you, 5,000 out of 150,000 is a pretty small base. With 5,000, we can get 100% stomach sampling. We can then get out to the market with the pelts and seal oil. One of our members got shut down, about 15 years ago. He was into rendering the sea

Fisheries committee  First and foremost, we're starting off with an experimental stage. This isn't a “go out and clean out the stock”. Our initial proposition is to take 5,000 seals in the first year, do a full analysis, and do thorough market research with them. It's as simple as that.

Fisheries committee  Yes, very definitely. We've got the three largest groups on the coast, the Fraser Salmon Management Council, with Ken Malloway. We've got Ned Murray with the LFFA, and of course we have the group on the island as well. There are scatter groups that we haven't included, but they

Fisheries committee  Very specifically, at the Willamette fault, two years ago, when they first started this program, they were watching the winter steelhead population come through. It was 250 pieces that came through. Last year, they had 2,800.

Fisheries committee  You're right back on.

Fisheries committee  I'm sorry. I didn't get the question.

Fisheries committee  I'd phrase it a little more politely. I'd say, “They've been properly dealt with.”

Fisheries committee  I'm sorry. I apologize. That equates to approximately 30,000 chinook per day consumed by sea lions in the Columbia River. The population of harbour seals in the Strait of Georgia is around 48,000. If they consume one mature salmon per week, that equates to 192,000 per month, t

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much for inviting us here. It's been a long wait to get before people on the east coast who understand our problems. I'm going to give a brief outline of what we've done here, and Matt will follow up. I'm going to start off with the risk of not dealing with pinnip

Fisheries committee  I'm not quite sure.... Your sound was cutting out. Could you quickly repeat that question?

Fisheries committee  If I understand your question correctly, the solution is already in place. That's because of the infrastructure of the professional commercial fleet and all the infrastructure supporting it. The market is in place but yet to be proven. I understand there's a 400,000 quota on the

Fisheries committee  The help is in providing employment, and this employment [Technical difficulty—Editor]. I'm sorry. The interpretation has been cutting out. I didn't get a clear recognition of your question. My apologies from the west coast, English-speaking....

Fisheries committee  From what I can see, they're fully aware of the pinniped problem on the Columbia and in Puget Sound. They've done their test studies and are moving forward. As I said before, we're just waiting for the outcome of this 23-member panel to discuss it. They're not concerned about the