Fisheries committee  I can't answer your question about the wild salmon policy. I just don't remember enough about the comparison with the United States. The one thing that DFO and all countries need to do, and I've said it a dozen times, is to recognize that we don't have the information that we n

Fisheries committee  No, fishing is not our problem. I think DFO does a good job at managing fishing. Where I disagree with DFO is that I actually think there could be more fishing opportunities, particularly in the recreational sector. It's not a fishing issue; it's an issue of ocean survival. I d

Fisheries committee  I only know a little bit about it, and yes, it's important. The North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission has the co-operation of the international North Pacific Fisheries Commission. However, there are no winners and losers. If what I am doing is basically providing the informa

Fisheries committee  I can't answer that. I can only repeat that as part of the assessment that you're referring to, which is essential, you need more information. There are too many missing pieces to really understand essentially what the mechanisms are. I keep telling you that I retired 10 years a

Fisheries committee  Relatively quickly, I'd just tell you again that I think the fundamental mechanism that regulates all salmon, all species throughout their distribution, is that when they enter the ocean, they survive better if they grow faster and quicker. Remember that even in the best years,

Fisheries committee  I think so. They are probably meeting today on the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission. My experience started in the 1970s, when we had very close co-operation internationally, and I think that the co-operation is still there.

Fisheries committee  Yes, I do, but I don't think we have the data that we need. We need to see a bigger picture and we need to see differently. What data we do have we are using, but we don't have the information that allows us to see a bigger picture. We need the missing pieces if we're going to

Fisheries committee  We can obtain it, first of all, by recognizing that we do not have the information that we need. What we don't understand is how climate is changing the carrying capacity of the coastal oceans, which affects the overall survival, the ability of fish to survive through the first o

Fisheries committee  Thank you.

Fisheries committee  I had a barking dog. I had to go and stop it.

Fisheries committee  I'm sorry. I had to stop it.

Fisheries committee  Washington has a focus on chinook, coho and steelhead. They represent a fairly small percentage of the total catch by all countries, but, that said, they have some awfully good scientists who have produced some really good papers, again focusing on the mechanisms that regulate sa

Fisheries committee  Well, I told you guys that I'm old, so I don't know if I can answer that. Everybody knows that science progresses because we disagree with each other in a professional way, and that's important. My experience is that we get along pretty well, and for years, if I've needed a bit

Fisheries committee  That's a good question. I'm not sure I can answer it, but if I were doing it, we have a pretty good idea of the scientists who could contribute. When we had our expedition in 2019, I chartered, along with a colleague, the Professor Kaganovskiy, a Russian research ship. We loaded

Fisheries committee  Fish that survive are the fish that grow faster and more quickly in the first months in the ocean. For those fish that survive the first ocean winter, there is mortality, but in general the brood-year strength is determined at the first ocean winter, based on how fast they grow i