Fisheries committee  How much time do you have?

Fisheries committee  Then I'll have to do the short version, which won't do it service. Number one, I think the first priority is that Canada has to get back to the ocean. That should not be any surprise to anybody who has followed what we've been doing out here for a while. We just took a gillnette

Fisheries committee  I think maybe too long.

Fisheries committee  I think what you're referring to is that, when there are more fish, there's less conflict. That's not a great insightful statement when you think about it, but when you take it the other way it explains a lot of the animosity and the really tough decisions. When there's very li

Fisheries committee  Yes, I do. I've had experience in the U.S. with their science advisory process on three major panels. I would say another option to look at is that you have specific advisory panels on particularly contentious points. Salmon aquaculture could be an example of this. The big diff

Fisheries committee  Maybe I can start. First off, I think you'd have to qualify your question further, in the sense that it really would depend on the topic of concern. Yes, there is no question that there are good science advisers within the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. It's a matter of who

Fisheries committee  We don't really have much of an industry anymore, to be honest.

Fisheries committee  Frequently in the development of new methodologies and new information, you do have differences of opinion in science. Nonetheless, in fully objective science and dialogue, you work through those differences because, if it's a difference in methodology, you can evaluate it throug

Fisheries committee  My comment is what I just said. There isn't any question that what you're referring to has been a very substantial evolution in the methodology of studying fish health. There is a classical approach to fish health, where we see the expression of disease and we go back and try to

Fisheries committee  Sure.

Fisheries committee  Your numbers are not quite correct at this time. Among the pinnipeds on the coast—and we're talking basically of the seals, including some of the larger fur seals moving down the coast—the harbour seal population through B.C. has been pretty stable for about 20 years, but it grew

Fisheries committee  If you're referring to a pinniped management plan, then yes, it would be an opportunity to control the population and its effect. That does not equate to a predator removal plan. It could be a change in how we still manage log booms in Canada on the west coast. It could be a fact

Fisheries committee  I have to apologize because I really cannot answer your question. I have not been able to participate in any consultation about the PSSI. I hear rumours of it, because I managed the entire stock assessment staff for the Pacific for about 10 years and I still have lots of friends

Fisheries committee  I think the opportunity is still there. The collaboration varies with the particular question and the time. We in science now generally talk about an activity called citizen science. There are multiple levels of this now because the first nations don't want to be considered citi

Fisheries committee  I think the relationship is still there. It's just a matter of whether there are questions that can be addressed by using that collaboration. Do we have an agreement on how we would undertake it? I think the opportunity for the department now is that, with the new money through t