Fisheries committee  Yes, with the exception of lobster.

Fisheries committee  It's a positive impact. Lobster is a species that reacts positively to the warming, but the cold water species—snow crab, northern shrimp and Greenland halibut—are in trouble.

Fisheries committee  Shrimp has been in decline for several years. However, the decline was gradual. It really accelerated over the last three or four years, when shrimp became part of the redfish diet and the temperature continued to warm up. It was around this time that we became aware of the combi

Fisheries committee  As I mentioned earlier, shrimp is a cold-water species. Its abundance would still decline, even in the absence of a predator like redfish. Redfish accelerate the impact of the ecosystem on shrimp, but current warming means that the habitat available for shrimp is diminishing rapi

Fisheries committee  It's a matter of length of the fish. The length at which redfish can start being fished is 22 centimetres, and that was reached three or four years ago for a fair proportion of the large cohorts.

Fisheries committee  Yes. The science advice says that the stock could this year be fished at a much higher ratio, but the difficulty, as Mr. Spingle mentioned, is to be able to extract the resource without catching the other redfish species and without catching other species of commercial interest l

Fisheries committee  It's difficult for me to say who should be prioritized. If I could give a personal opinion, of course, I worked a lot with inshore fishermen. I know well the fishing communities all around the Gulf of St. Lawrence. I know very well how difficult the situation is, so—

Fisheries committee  Right now it's inshore, given that most harvesters have quota only for one species. Therefore the shrimp harvesters, if they can only fish shrimp and cannot fish anymore, are of course more vulnerable.

Fisheries committee  As I was mentioning, the system keeps warming. It will keep warming in the short term and in the mid term as well. The cold-water species that we have in the gulf—

Fisheries committee  At least in the mid term. We know that it's warming at the surface—that's climate change—but it's also warming in the deep layers from an inflow of the Gulf Stream. It's warming both at the surface and at the bottom. The warming is really fast right now, so the cold water species

Fisheries committee  These are certainly decisions that can be made. At present, the person who holds the position of Minister of Fisheries and Oceans has the power to make any decision. However, based on what we've seen in the case of other species, historical shares are an important factor. That's

Fisheries committee  In the case of inshore fleets, we're often talking about people who have a fishing licence for a single species.

Fisheries committee  Yes, absolutely. We agree on that. If their resource runs out, they don't have a safety net. That's the big difference. So, for that reason, I would say yes. However, I would invite the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans to look at strategies to increase the resilience o

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank all committee members for having me here today. I am a professor and Canada Research Chair in Fisheries Ecology at the Institut des sciences de la mer of the Université du Québec à Rimouski. Since 2018, my research team has

Fisheries committee  The mackerel that are in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Atlantic Canada later in the summer migrate to American coastal waters to overwinter. There is a winter fishery in the United States, but the quotas have been greatly reduced, as was mentioned earlier. However, the fishery is