Fisheries committee  Nobody has come to me and said this is a good idea, that it needs to happen. I've heard nobody say that, nobody in any of the sectors, any of the fisheries, and even inside DFO people inside the department are saying this is bizarre.

Fisheries committee  In the remote areas of the coast, there's no readily available processing plant to handle this. That makes it impossible to fish a huge part of our coast and serve the domestic market that way. It really throws that disadvantage as well.

Fisheries committee  Well, there are other fish that are tubbed that are much more difficult to defrost. It's like what we were talking about with hake, which is in a large tote, and there are other species of fish that are individually frozen at sea, but they would be very, very hard to discern unle

Fisheries committee  It's terrible timing, absolutely.

Fisheries committee  Certainly. It undermines legitimate harvesters right across the board.

Fisheries committee  We're baffled as well, right? The inform and educate, we can understand, but if discretion means they can decide whether they're going to enforce this the way they have reinterpreted the regulation.... That's my understanding of this discretion. That means you're at risk if you'r

Fisheries committee  It certainly makes it very difficult. DFO is very clear that the onus is on the harvester to comply with the regulation, but they don't seem willing to give us their interpretation of the regulation, which is very challenging. You can imagine that. I've got to be clear here that

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  Not on prawn.

Fisheries committee  I think you got it.

Fisheries committee  I would echo those comments. In the short term, the identification of a random sample as being sufficient to meet the needs.... Moving forward, some kind of standardization set with the industry on tub size and transparency, that kind of thing, would be useful. I just hope we do

Fisheries committee  One of the first comments the department made to us on this whole issue was that the onus was on the harvester to comply with the regulations. If you ask what the regulations mean and what the issues are, and we don't get a clear answer, it becomes very, very difficult to compl

Fisheries committee  That's correct. Yes.

Fisheries committee  That's correct. Yes. On the IUU component, which a couple of your members asked questions about, one of the other fisheries identified as having some kind of radical changes recently is the clam fishery. There's an estimate that about two to three times the actual commercial la

Fisheries committee  Yes, that's correct.