Fisheries committee  I would like to follow up on that. Yes, fish farms are definitely a conflict. Maybe they should be in the agriculture ministry and allow fisheries to be managed by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. I think the buying of licences, the transfer programs where DFO manages op

Fisheries committee  I would say that there's been ample evidence from the Cohen inquiry all the way through that fish farms are a significant problem. If you have a significant problem that you know exists, the precautionary approach would dictate that you don't allow them to continue, just as you d

Fisheries committee  I would say so. Also, I would follow up on what my colleague mentioned, in that if you don't have boots on the ground, you don't have the information. Without the information, you can't manage, basically, so you abdicate management if you don't go out and get that information.

Fisheries committee  The simple answer is no. Even at this present time, when I talk about forgone opportunity, we're not allowed to retain coho on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Even though biological staff over the years have said there is an opportunity, with a very marginal impact on Canadi

Fisheries committee  Absolutely.

Fisheries committee  I don't think I could really comment. There is no foreign ownership in the existing fleet. As for whether there are illegal fleets within the 200-mile limit, I would tend to think that we probably have decent enforcement. What we have seen in the last 20 years is a massive incre

Fisheries committee  The fish go from Alaska down to Washington, Oregon and California. Those are the stocks that we're harvesting. We're not harvesting Alaskan fish. Alaskans are harvesting Canadian fish that would come to us within our area, so we reciprocate and harvest some of theirs as they go b

Fisheries committee  I think they've made it a priority and they've made the investment. They're removing dams on the Columbia. They put money into enhancement and mass hatchery programs in Alaska. Salmon has been recognized as a social and cultural driver and has taken priority over many other inter

Fisheries committee  Yes, absolutely. There's no doubt about it. COVID has an impact on everyone. It has an impact on our industry. It has an impact on how we can fish, how we can deliver fish and where we move fish to. Our buyers are not wanting to deliver to the States if they don't have to, and

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. I can't see how you could avoid doing that. Between Big Bar and all of the other elements that we face, and the conflicting interests among user groups, if you don't declare it an emergency, you're basically just pitting the last of the users out here against each oth

Fisheries committee  Well, I would like to see enough funds, first and foremost, to help the fishermen and the infrastructure that we need to support the industry into the future. We need a discussion on what the goal in managing fisheries on the west coast is, which has some guiding principles and

Fisheries committee  Well, the catch reduction was that rather than reduce the catch in Alaska completely or pull more dams on the Columbia, Canada took a catch reduction to accommodate the U.S., and in exchange, they provided $30 million U.S. to mitigate the impacts. There was only one fleet that

Fisheries committee  I will follow up with that question, actually, because it does follow up on Ken Hardie's question, are there a lot of fish out there? There are not a lot of fish out there, but there are also very few commercial fishermen. The forgone opportunities are for the remaining small num

Fisheries committee  I think the first thing is to declare what it is, which is a disaster. That follows up on how there is not enough salmon to go around for all of the increased participants that the federal government has added over the last number of years, the increased charter business, the inc

Fisheries committee  With regard to this year as an example, the science is not being done. We used to have the science. We have a wealth of information within the department. We don't need to create our own science branch within fisheries. If we have access to that information, we can justify fishe