Fisheries committee  I'm not sure I understand the question, but industry raised the concern, and we then worked with it to resolve the issue.

Fisheries committee  The conservation and protection officers who were part of that working group on traceability in packaging raised the issues when industry had noted the expectation that prawn tubbing would continue to be more important to them.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, yes, I am happy to. We don't collect data that will give us a definitive answer, but we do have estimates from industry. The estimate from industry is that it has gone from up to about 10% of the catch last year, with an expectation that it may grow substantially agai

Fisheries committee  Sure, I can certainly help with those questions. On your last point, to be clear, again, we have not banned tubbing. If tubbing can occur in a way that allows for the size limit to be readily determined, then it can proceed. We are pursuing discussions with industry about what

Fisheries committee  It may be, but we have not had that conversation in more detail. As Rebecca was suggesting earlier, tubbing was—at least to the department's knowledge—not a frequent practice until recently. For issues like, “What is a tub?”, “What's its size?”, “What's its shape?” and “What co

Fisheries committee  We began meeting with industry in early February when they raised this issue to our attention. Through the course of probably six, seven, eight or nine meetings between February and April, we had a discussion about potential options that led to basically our support for the proto

Fisheries committee  The fishery opened on May 14.

Fisheries committee  You're right. The industry did raise concerns, given the concern that DFO had raised about the potential for not meeting our regulatory requirements. We very quickly acknowledged that this was an issue of great concern to the industry and immediately began this series of meetings

Fisheries committee  The issue was raised in the course of initial discussions that happened on another matter. When that issue was raised, both the department and industry recognized that there was a problem. Industry expressed their concern about the possibility that what they expected to do as par

Fisheries committee  Thanks, Rebecca. As Rebecca mentioned in her opening remarks, this issue emerged somewhat inadvertently through conversations on a related topic between DFO and industry on matters of packaging and labelling. In a conversation with that group in late January, there was discussio

Fisheries committee  Very briefly I would just say that there is, with any species, some variability around when and at what size they may spawn, but in general our view is that the size limit helps to support the objective of getting these prawns large enough to spawn before they are available for h

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, I don't have any opening remarks beyond those made by Ms. Reid.