Fisheries committee  That's correct.

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much for the question. I just wanted to offer very briefly before responding to your question about mackerel that, as you acknowledged, my training is in oceanography. I have members of my management team in the NCR who have Ph.D.s and post-graduate degrees in mar

Fisheries committee  I certainly can start. Adam, if you have anything you'd like to add, I invite you to chime in, please. Maybe just to come back to a comment I made in response to an earlier question about biomass estimates or indices, I just want to acknowledge that many of our fisheries are m

Fisheries committee  In complement to the conflict of interest policy, we also have a participation policy associated with the CSAS process, which appears on our website. It articulates the types of participants we're looking to assemble in order to undertake that evidence-based peer review I spoke o

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. As part of the CSAS process and the conflict of interest policy, it's very clear that the focus of the discussion is not the subsequent management decision that is made as a result of the advice we give, but very much what evidence base we can bring f

Fisheries committee  I think my colleague actually would like to comment.

Fisheries committee  Perhaps I'll start. Rebecca, if you would like to add or complement anything I've said, please go ahead. We have three dedicated fisheries vessels with the Canadian Coast Guard that have been just recently transitioned into service. As I mentioned a few moments ago, we're very

Fisheries committee  Maybe I'll start, and then Adam may want to add something about consultation. I'll start by clarifying that in DFO's science sector, we undertake evidence-based peer review and we aren't responsible for consultations on actual management decision-making with any of our partners,

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. There isn't a rule or a national standard that's applied, but we generally try to undertake a framework assessment—and that's where we go back and we look at the modelling approaches—every five years. As I said, that's inconsistent, because in some ca

Fisheries committee  In that particular fishery, we do have a model that is used to provide advice to inform decisions on fisheries. It also provides projections that allow us to evaluate future prospects.

Fisheries committee  Yes, it was.

Fisheries committee  What I can say in response to that question, is that we're very fortunate to have two new fisheries Coast Guard vessels on the east coast and one on the west coast—

Fisheries committee  What I was attempting to answer is that we are right now undertaking work to comparatively trawl on the east coast, which means that we are using both the old and new vessels side by side to be able to ensure the continuity of the data series. We're still doing that. In fact, tha

Fisheries committee  I'll just maybe add the precision that I interpret the question to mean “surveys” as opposed to “stock assessments”, but maybe—

Fisheries committee  Okay. Perfect. I would say that we have had difficulties and challenges since the beginning of the pandemic as we transitioned to new vessels. However, we are fully committed to undertaking those surveys—with the support of our Coast Guard colleagues—as frequently as we possibly