Fisheries committee  I think we always have choices to make about where we direct resources, but we do have an effective complement of assets that we can deploy to provide coverage across the region. We make choices about how and when to deploy those based on our understanding of where there may be i

Fisheries committee  If you mean whether enforcement officers themselves have a misunderstanding of fishing rights, I don't think so. We have training programs that attempt to keep our fishery officers up to date. It is also a topic that is evolving. Rights can be defined through court cases that are

Fisheries committee  Maybe I'll offer a couple of thoughts. With respect to avoiding or preventing illegal fishing in the first place, one of the things I think is important, which we support across all of our fisheries, is a process through which we build management plans— which hopefully have und

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. With respect to capacity, there are various assets in the region that we think support effective enforcement. As I was describing earlier, those include both overt forms of enforcement that are visible to people who may be harvesting, and covert forms

Fisheries committee  We have a variety of enforcement and compliance activities and assets in the region that all support oversight and ensure compliance. Those range in from the high seas. You may have heard about our operation north Pacific guard, which Mr. Burns spoke to earlier. More into domes

Fisheries committee  I don't think I can speak to what was reported per se, without some specifics about the incident. However, I think the assets we have in place, and the enforcement resources are the things we would use to ensure the proper oversight and compliance.

Fisheries committee  I can take that question. This is something that the department has attempted to do in several fisheries in the past. The reason for that is that we have changed our management approaches and don't necessarily need restrictions on stacking or marriage, or, for that matter, vesse

Fisheries committee  I can maybe offer a response. I think there are a few main themes I would mention. The first is that we do have a team within the region that works specifically with the PICFI program to support first nations and the way those licences are administered and delivered, etc. I thi

Fisheries committee  I should be clear that the PSSI funding can support salmon restoration, rebuilding, etc., in both B.C. and the Yukon. I know that we have just gone through a round of reviewing project proposals that could support indigenous transformation, which I think would be particularly rel

Fisheries committee  I'll invite my colleague to respond to that.

Fisheries committee  As you alluded to, one of the things we're doing is attempting to collect better information about the socio-economics of the fishery. If you'll permit me, there are a few pieces here. It may take me a minute or two to get through them, but this has been an area where we have don

Fisheries committee  I'll begin, and then we'll invite my colleague Mr. Waddell to add more. As I mentioned, on the Pacific coast, historically, we have not had constraints in place that would limit the participation of corporations or foreign interests in the holding of commercial licences. There a

Fisheries committee  In the context of these two licence types, there would be potentially multiple regulatory authorities implicated.

Fisheries committee  It's DFO and Transport Canada that have the primary regulatory authority over vessels.

Fisheries committee  I've only read small sections of it that were relevant to fisheries, and I've received very short briefings on some of its key findings.