Fisheries committee  It's a good question. I think it kind of relates to Mike Staley's points around co-governance and co-management, and also the points that the other panellists have made around the necessary separation between management and science. Currently without that separation it's really

Fisheries committee  I'm not familiar with those specific regional fisheries, as I'm sure you can imagine, but we had similar challenges in B.C. This year, the minister unilaterally declared herring fisheries closed, as Mr. Taylor mentioned, including our nation's spawn on kelp fisheries, which are

Fisheries committee  It's no problem. I can speak to that as the program director for an indigenous organization. We've been actively reaching out to the PSSI team. I think “silos” is a really good word to use when referring to this new subsection within the department. They don't seem to know how

Fisheries committee  Absolutely, and thank you for the question. It's very important and integral to the work we do. I think I spoke in my opening statement to the value of indigenous knowledge as a space with a much longer-term view and understanding of resources and ecosystems, driven by the peop

Fisheries committee  I see that my colleague, Alejandro Frid, also has raised his hand.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Hardie. I think that's exactly the problem, and I think Jesse is pointing it out well. With ministerial discretion and the final decision, it should be directly informed by science in this case. I think, as Mr. Taylor spoke about, we're having those decisions infl

Fisheries committee  That depends on your paradigm. I think that we here at the panel today support science-based decision-making. It is critical to the success of supporting our fish and, therefore, the success of our fishers long term; whereas if we're just supporting fisheries in the short term,

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Dr. Charlotte Whitney, and as you said, I'm here as the fisheries management and science program director for the Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance, or CCIRA. Previous to this role, I did work with the Pacific Salmon Foundation. I am ca