Fisheries committee  Personally, I would go to fish farms, because there's nothing wrong with that idea. I think there's enough science now that we can address a lot of the concerns. I'd sprinkle in some kelp, as well as some shellfish, and do some multi-trophic aquaculture.

Fisheries committee  Yes. The ask was around funding. The federal government needs to provide adequate funding. We need capital funding for business development in aquaculture and for business development to assist in establishing partnerships with industry. First nations need the province to also

Fisheries committee  Yes, we're talking about the problem seals. I call them “habitualized” ones, but they are the ones that come into the rivers when we are releasing fry. There's a really simple one. The province allows loggers or forestry to put their log booms right beside the mouth of a river.

Fisheries committee  I think there's something like over 208 or 209 nations in B.C. Of those, I think probably a quarter, so 45 to 50, would be my best guess in terms of marine involvement.

Fisheries committee  I would say it's a mixture. It just depends on what you like to be called, I guess. I know that with our modern-day treaty, we like to be called nations.

Fisheries committee  That's individual nations. The language groupings are much different. I'm part of the Nuu-chah-nulth, which is 14 groups and one language.

Fisheries committee  First nations people, particularly the Nuu-chah-nulth, are ocean-going people. Nuu-chah-nulth literally means “people of the mountains facing the sea”. We are definitely a part of anything to do with the ocean. It goes back to our principles of hishuk'ish tsawalk, the interconnec

Fisheries committee  I think we need to have capital funding for business development. We need to have business development to establish partnerships with industry. We need the funding for that. We need the province to support and build to be able to process the applications. We need governments to h

Fisheries committee  Well, the environmental groups.... I like to call them “environmental activists”, because everyone is afraid to deal with this. The first nations role in our environment prior to contact was to maintain the balance of nature. It's unbalanced right now. Seals and sea lions are g

Fisheries committee  Sure. The best way to be engaged is.... With my group at least, we're a treaty group, so we are already collaborating. I think that if you can focus on some of the varied marine areas, you could sort out some funding regarding business development for aquaculture and establishi

Fisheries committee  I can give you my view on it. It's hard to speak for everyone else. My view on bringing the salmon back involves looking at production, upping the production, looking at survival rates, looking at pinniped management and predator control, and looking at collaboration among gove

Fisheries committee  I think the AFN could be appropriate to look at indigenous things on the coast, but I think speaking directly with the nations, with the tribal groupings, is likely the best, and even drilling down right to the specific nation levels. I think we get caught up in this cookie-cutte

Fisheries committee  I'll go first, on seals. Our approach to them would be to deal with habitualized seals or sea lions within the system itself while we're collecting our brood stock and also to deal with them when we're releasing our fry in the estuary area. The third place would be while we're

Fisheries committee  There could be a lot more funding put towards this type of aquaculture, whether it be kelp or— I'm sorry, Gord. Can you rephrase that question?

Fisheries committee  We could use more funding and capital funding in terms of developing aquaculture. We could use more funding for business development to establish partnerships with industry. FLRNORD could use more funding to hire more people to process applications. I don't know if that answers