Fisheries committee  I'm not sure if I understand well. If you want to know if we were involved in those initial negotiations, my answer would be no. The decisions were just put in front of us and were negotiated much higher than us, and we have to live with the consequences right now.

Fisheries committee  I'm so sorry. I missed half of the question.

Fisheries committee  I would say yes. I would say we are a hostage in that. You're right.

Fisheries committee  The point is that it seems as though we are all in the same basket. The reality is different from one fishery to another, and everything seems to be depending on the U.S. deciding whether or not all the fisheries will be good. I must say that, at this point, we're not sure what t

Fisheries committee  I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

Fisheries committee  I think they're completely unhappy.

Fisheries committee  Oh. You mean with the minister's response.

Fisheries committee  I think the minister has done what she could. It's not enough yet. We have to be more clear [Technical difficulty—Editor].

Fisheries committee  I was saying that DFO did answer, but I think the answer is not strong enough yet, especially [Technical difficulty—Editor] is going through media right now and there's not enough information about the real facts, that we are doing [Technical difficulty—Editor].

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, members of the committee. Thank you for the time you are allowing me. My name is Jean Côté. I have been the scientific director of the Regroupement des pêcheurs professionnels du Sud de la Gaspésie, the RPPSG, since 2010. I have a bachelor'

Fisheries committee  I don't think I can explain it to you today because it would take a long time. Besides, Mr. Sullivan would probably be in a better position to talk to you about that. Surely this question also relates to the last question about herring and mackerel. If it is so urgent to stop t

Fisheries committee  We don't know. What I was saying earlier is that there was a second commercial fishing season, presumably for research and exploration purposes. It's never been very clear. When we ask for more details, we don't get the details of the protocol or the data. We can't know them, no

Fisheries committee  It's a good question. Basically, I've been discussing that with a lobster biologist in Quebec, but never have the time to do it. He knows how to model, but he never has the time to do it. There's a lot of work, and now he's on a congé de maladie; he's not there. I wanted to do s

Fisheries committee  That's a good question. As I often explain, there is a tendency to say that fishers are too involved and that our science is not as good as that of the researchers or of the department itself. However, I wanted to demonstrate earlier [Technical difficulty—Editor] that this is ve

Fisheries committee  Several presentations made this morning have shown that all the associations, wherever they are in the Atlantic, are very committed, and have been for a long time. I'm talking about non‑indigenous and indigenous associations. We can see that science can be conducted anywhere. The