Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. The answer is no. Similar to my colleague, I'm interested in collaborating as required, for sure.

Fisheries committee  I'll try. I almost need a biologist for that; I pretty much do. The way I see it is that there are mass marking occurrences happening, say in the territories of nations in the Fraser watershed. They could be at a given hatchery. In the lower Fraser we have three or four. We'll m

Fisheries committee  Yes, it is a big question and we only have 30 seconds. We need to manage more terminally. We cannot continue with these mixed-stock fisheries if stocks of concern are continually being accessed. Primarily, our concern is conservation first. Let those fish get back to where the

Fisheries committee  Yes, it's a similar answer. It's all about the ecosystem and the beings who rely on salmon and our water. That's first and foremost for me. We don't have a salmon problem. We have a people problem. If we disappeared from the earth today, I think the fish would be fine.

Fisheries committee  When the integrated fisheries management plans and the Pacific Salmon Treaty—and DFO's ability to manage within those confines—were established maybe in the 1980s, there was a lot of fish to be found. There was not too much argument. Everybody had their piece of the pie, so to sp

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. It's everywhere. I'll take a run at the province and I'll take a run at Canada, because all of them work in silos. You have ministries that do not collaborate in both the province and Canada—as much as I would like to see, anyway.

Fisheries committee  That's fair. I'm happy to chime in.... I'm sorry. Go ahead.

Fisheries committee  I'm happy to try to respond briefly to your question about resources. In short, I have two words: salmon crisis. It's been happening for the last four decades, and it's just coming to a head now. There are not enough resources either way. I think devolution and decentralization

Fisheries committee  I concur. The resource loses. Ultimately, we lose as first nations. When the salmon disappear, so do our culture and identity.

Fisheries committee  Yes. It's shared with DFO as well.

Fisheries committee  Yes. For our organization, we don't oversee it. It's all done independently by a few nations and one organization in the lower Fraser.

Fisheries committee  That's a pretty big can of worms. We don't support mark-selective fisheries because we believe there's already enough compromise on conservation. The very fish we're trying to conserve, they're being intercepted in marine waters in mixed stock fisheries. I think I'll stop there

Fisheries committee  If I could share a model that is in my mind from the lower Fraser first nations, it would be government-to-government-to-government relations, but with the provision that there's still opportunity for stakeholders to be at that table as advisers and have a technical table with we

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. In the lower Fraser, DFO has supported catch monitoring through its AFS program. We have at least five or six first nations and then an aggregate of about 23 first nations and independent organizations that do the catch monitoring, including the bycat

Fisheries committee  I'll give it a try, but we do have experts in that field who would be much better at articulating that. Essentially we're going back to our historic and oral stories and documenting them. We're going to our leadership. We're even going to current knowledge holders as well as elde