Fisheries committee  No, I didn't.

Fisheries committee  I'll begin. In terms of who we're working with, we are working with most of the larger organizations, such as PEIFA, FFAW, and the Maritime Fishermen's Union, on a number of specific projects, largely catch samplings and settlement work, and things like that. If I could say one

Fisheries committee  There is one item I would like to put on the radar screen for this committee, and it comes back to the issue of climate change, in this particular instance, the potential effects of climate change on lobster. This has to do with ocean acidification as a result of the increased

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Blais. Let me start with the budget. At the moment, the department's lobster budget is about $3 million. That means 16 or 17 people in the four Atlantic regions. Another half a million dollars come from our partners for joint ventures. As for the scientific proje

Fisheries committee  Yes. If you're speaking of NAFO, it's not in regard to lobster, I presume.

Fisheries committee  More generally on the NAFO issue, on the science side, we are collaborating heavily with other nations that fish in the NAFO area. In particular, it's with Spain at this point. Mr. Paradis has been leading an initiative whereby we have an MOU that was signed by our minister a few

Fisheries committee  They eat quite a few things, so yes, they would. On your question about the food and whether it's circular, yes, it is. It is all interrelated, as Mr. Bevan was saying. But in terms of whether the lobsters are starving to death, we have no evidence of that. It seems there's sti

Fisheries committee  Yes, they have been around for quite a few years. I think the advantage to this approach is that it does bring people together, including the industry and researchers, in trying to find common solutions. We haven't actually been able to demonstrate that there's a very large eff

Fisheries committee  Landed value only.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. The projects I was referring to were in fact new money that came into the department as a result of the Larocque decision. So we have specifically invested in lobster as part of that additional funding that came into the department.

Fisheries committee  Right now, the funding that I was referring to has to go to industry partners, as opposed to academic partners. Now, we do work very closely with the Atlantic Veterinary College and with the lobster research centre. At this point, we usually count our contributions in kind from b

Fisheries committee  Thank you, David. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to discuss this most important fishery with you and the standing committee. I say “most important fishery” in the context that, as this group already realizes, I'm sure, the lobster fishery in Atlantic Canada has be

Fisheries committee  Certainly. This really falls under Transport Canada predominantly, and they are responsible for regulating ballast water in Canadian waters. New ballast water regulations did come into force in June 2006, and these regulations meet the standards set out in the International Conve

Fisheries committee  Yes, thank you, Deputy. Mr. Chair, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission is aware of the increasing numbers of sea lamprey. For a time the treatments had actually been cut back. They have been increased, and we would expect that we would see the results of the increase. But at the

Fisheries committee  In terms of the funding, as the deputy mentioned, Canada did increase the amount of funding by $2 million per year, so the amount that goes into sea lamprey control is $8 million from Canada. The U.S. allocations vary a bit, but certainly that comes up at every commission meeting