Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’ll probably have a chance to ask more questions later, but I’m more interested in the technical side on the first round. Mr. Burns, when a fishery closes and then reopens, no matter how many years later, is the catch history of the various fleets still c

Fisheries committee  As part of the new fishing quota allocation, they considered who had a catch history when the fishery closed. Despite that, fishing quotas were still allocated to other fleets or groups, such as the offshore fleet or the shrimp fleet, which had no catch history. Is this correct?

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, I think if you read the motion of Mrs. Desbiens very carefully, it said the 27th for two hours and the 29th for two hours. This is what we voted on, and I think we should respect that. The bells are ringing.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, I just want to clarify one thing, just to make sure that the clerk understands: It was the removal of the report by...? Okay, that's perfect.

Fisheries committee  Yes, Mr. Chair. I'd like to propose a minor amendment to this motion. I can read it, and then I can send it to the committee. The end of Ms. Desbiens' motion reads “that the committee report its findings and recommendations to the House.” That would be replaced by “that the co

Fisheries committee  For consultations on the elver fishery, are you going to try to get indigenous groups and commercial fishers in the same room? Will you encourage such a discussion to see how we can come up with something that will hold?

Fisheries committee  I see.

Fisheries committee  Perfect. You said earlier that this takes place in over 200 rivers. You also talked about having sufficient resources that would allow you to have control should things ever get out of hand again. Will you have a sufficient number of protection officers if a situation like last

Fisheries committee  All right. Mr. Napier, did you feel that there was a threat to the conservation and protection officers in this whole situation? Were you afraid, if I can put it that way, of making some arrests? What do your agents think about this whole situation?

Fisheries committee  I'm going to ask one last question, which will be difficult to answer, but that's why we have this committee. Have fisheries officers received any direction not to arrest commercial or first nations fishermen in the last two years, since these situations have been happening?

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. We will be issuing a press release today to say that there will be consultations for the upcoming season. I think people understand the government's goal of reconciliation with indigenous peoples; we've been talking about it for a number of years. I think e

Fisheries committee  There's a little change in the order. I'm sorry, Mr. Chair. Mr. Hardie will take my spot for this round.

Fisheries committee  I have a point of order, Mr. Chair. I just want to clarify what happened here. In no way do we want to shut down this meeting. This took five minutes to pass. Everything that we were passing right now was on a motion I was debating last meeting when we adjourned. We want to hear

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, I know this meeting is important today, but I move that the committee resume consideration of the debate on my motion on succession planning from February 8, 2024.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, I have a point of order.