Fisheries committee  Yes, with regard to making the decisions from science and translating that into management, I agree with the sentiments of a number of the panellists today. We need some sort of firewall or independence to confirm that what the science says is translated into the management advic

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  Well, there's been substantive research since that time, and you've heard some of it in Dr. Miller-Saunders' testimony, and others. I think progress has been made. The challenge is that the questions they're trying to answer are very difficult, so throwing more money at it, and

Fisheries committee  I would pass that to Dr. Mordecai, or others who have been closer to that. They have certainly made some progress. Of course, you've heard the controversy about whether these eight or nine SARS on salmon farm risk were accurate or not. There's quite a bit of debate. I haven't b

Fisheries committee  My experiences with stock assessment, counting salmon and harvests and determining harvest rates, are principally the work I've done with DFO. The challenge is that there are a heck of a lot of salmon streams and inadequate funding to monitor them. That has varied over the admini

Fisheries committee  You know, I really—

Fisheries committee  Sure. Second, the recovery potential report showed that predicted trajectories of steelhead populations were relatively insensitive to reductions in steelhead bycatch in salmon fisheries. This occurred because the current harvest rates on steelhead are estimated to be relatively

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to be a witness today. I'd like to begin by providing a brief summary of my background. I'm a fishery scientist who runs a small consulting company in Vancouver and I'm an adjunct professor at the University of B.C. My work focuses on

Fisheries committee  I'm sorry about that. I'll talk a bit slower. I don't recall hearing any substantiated objections to our conclusions during the CSAS proceedings, but I can't document this discrepancy because the proceedings are still not available. Second, the recovery potential report showed