Fisheries committee  Our capacity is basically just four or five professional biologists, including me, who work part-time for the Fraser Salmon Management Board and the Fraser Salmon Management Council. This is after two and a half years of an agreement with the Crown to make joint decisions on fish

Fisheries committee  It does not at the present.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the questions. On the last one, I see it as.... The first nations in the communities that we serve are on the ground, and they are the holders of their information and their science, as has been pointed out by others here today. We see that this has to be dealt wit

Fisheries committee  I'll try to do that in the context of first nations participation in these kinds of activities. I'll choose the latter, which is how the communication of the science gets to the decision-makers. In the work I'm doing now under the Fraser Salmon Collaborative Management Agreeme

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Michael Staley. I am coming to you from the traditional territory of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation on the west coast of Vancouver Island. I'm a fisheries biologist, trained in population dynamics, and have worked in the field, mainly on Pacifi