Fisheries committee  Well, I'm not a fan of hatcheries. A lot of my mortgage was paid for by my former partner, who was a hatchery manager, and a lot of my students get jobs in both federal and provincial hatcheries. However, I think you have to be very careful about hatcheries. Going back to what

Fisheries committee  In regard to the science, some of the stuff out of SFU, by Randall Peterman, suggests that yes, there is competition. The Alaskans putting out jillions of pink salmon affects chum salmon, which also overlap in terms of feeding. Out in open ocean, there can be potential impacts,

Fisheries committee  I guess I'm the hard-core angler here. I spend more time chasing chinooks than probably anybody in this whole meeting. Yes, again, there are potential negative impacts from a genetic perspective. What I would say, though, is that if you're going to have a fishery, every single c

Fisheries committee  I'm not aware of any. Certainly, I'm not exhaustive, but I keep in touch with the literature. It seems that wherever you have anadromous salmon or trout runs, there's always an impact. That's the sense I get. Chile doesn't have anadromous salmon runs that are natural. In fact, th

Fisheries committee  I work quite closely with one of my former students who is a community adviser. He's a DFO employee now and he connects with these local stewardship groups. A lot of them are running shoestring operations. We closed down the Vedder River gravel removal, which was a nonsensical

Fisheries committee  I knew that intimately. That was sort of my life and breath for about five years. I was one of the scientists who worked for the Salmon River Enhancement Society. We met with Ken Hardie and Terry Beech and did all sorts of stuff, at the end of the day. My understanding is that we

Fisheries committee  I've been away from it for about two years, but there was monitoring up to five years or maybe 10 years, I think. We said that the impacts related to the crossings needed to be measured 20 years or longer—or continuously. We used the Jasper, Alberta leg as an example. That had be

Fisheries committee  I can't say “instantaneous”, can I?

Fisheries committee  I think they do, but under the legislation of the previous government and the changes in the rules, they can actually now give out tickets or force people to remediate without having to go to the courts. That was laid out to me by one of the fisheries officers just recently. The

Fisheries committee  I'm not saying this from an oceanographic perspective, because tidal currents are so important for the maintenance of water quality, but in my view, behind Sechelt Peninsula, for example, we have these long inlets up the coast that have salmon runs. This is under the assumption t

Fisheries committee  I guess you used my name, so I'll jump in first. If a violation occurs, a fisheries officer goes out and does an investigation. He then takes it to the FFHPP—the fish and fish habitat protection program—and those guys have to make a decision with regard to whether a charge takes

Fisheries committee  I don't know the details of the budget, but in a general sense, yes, more needs to be done. We're just sitting here in a crisis situation. I mentioned the passenger pigeon and coho. That happened 30 years ago. Sockeye have basically disappeared off the map, so yes, I would agree

Fisheries committee  The flood system is actually pretty good in terms of the diking. It's the pump stations that are old and decrepit—or at least some of them. The local governments have been slowly upgrading them. The Somass River pump station is pretty fish-friendly. The Salmon River in Langley is

Fisheries committee  If you're exchanging a brown field for an even browner field, I guess it's site specific. If you're taking a sawmill and turning it into a subdivision, you should be able to negotiate a riparian area—at least get something out of it. That should be one of the positive things. Som

Fisheries committee  There's a little story behind that that's right in your backyard. We found out.... Some of the folks who have met with you—I don't know if you remember, but I actually met with you over the Kinder Morgan thing—some of these guys, under the cover of darkness, got their restrictive