Fisheries committee  The prawns that are processed at the seafood buyers can be tubbed. They are not under the requirements and regulations that the harvesters are. In fact, they could be selling them in the same tubs that the harvesters are selling them in now. Yes, you're making an important point

Fisheries committee  It's not often that the public is so ready and raring to gather around a commercial fishery. We've had tremendous support from the public by means of our federal petition, as well as anybody we've gone to for assistance in bringing this matter forward. On top of that, we hear al

Fisheries committee  It's entirely tone-deaf to what the challenges now facing industry participants are.

Fisheries committee  I think it's maybe been said already, but if we cannot freeze prawn tails in tubs, it means that locals only have access to prawns during the roughly 40-day season. Many, many prawn buyers, back when I was fishing, would buy 40 or 50 pounds frozen in tubs at a time to last them t

Fisheries committee  Maybe I'll just quickly add to that. There are other species of prawns and shrimp that are retainable under the W licence, but there is not a size requirement associated with those shrimp.

Fisheries committee  Just quickly, I wanted to point out that most of the harvest effort controls that are our fishery regulations were promoted by industry itself. The harvesters, for the most part, are very protective that those regulations are followed. Any violations, such as double-hauling or fi

Fisheries committee  It's great to hear that you've been to a prawn festival before, which I've helped host before in False Creek as well. It's a terrific show of the community, and so many people enjoy celebrating what we have to offer from our fishery here . When I think about the people there wat

Fisheries committee  None that I'm aware of.

Fisheries committee  I'll quickly point out that the PPFA hired Landmark to do studies of our management system in response to the management evaluation that DFO had requested. In that study, there is quite a bit of data modelling that indicates that we're not fishing as much of the harvestable bioma

Fisheries committee  I believe it should be possible to reverse the new thinking, and revert back to what was the status quo before this issue evolved. Failing that, harvesters would be much more willing to thaw out tubs of prawns upon an inspection request than to be cancelled out of the opportunity

Fisheries committee  Sure. Thank you. There are fines that could be placed on a harvester. The interference with their fishing time if they are asked to come into port for inspection and they are found to be in violation, really of any sort, can be devastatingly costly to the harvester. What we ar

Fisheries committee  Sure, thank you.

Fisheries committee  I would say that the efficiency of the prawn fleet has increased due to the development of better gear. However—

Fisheries committee  The stock is very stable.

Fisheries committee  We are well recognized as a very sustainable fishery, and our—