Fisheries committee  In the late evenings or early mornings, if they're there, you'll see them.

Fisheries committee  I don't know about the herring being cut. I bought some herring earlier this summer. I bought mackerel from Ireland. That's where my last stock of mackerel came from.

Fisheries committee  It's everything from lobster to all groundfish, but there are a lot of mackerel around the bay this year, everywhere you could see, right from mid-May until now. There's still mackerel there.

Fisheries committee  Yes, the lobster guys will quit a month before the season's over in the spring to go mackerel trap fishing.

Fisheries committee  Yes, in mid-May for a couple of weeks, there are the largest fish. Then they get progressively smaller for about six weeks. As the summer progresses, they get larger again, but they're not schooling then.

Fisheries committee  The season before, as soon as the mackerel arrived, the minister shut it down for a week, and there were mackerel that whole week, all large mackerel. It would have been a bumper season if it weren't for that week. It really hurt.

Fisheries committee  It was a good one.

Fisheries committee  Fisheries had the numbers. Yes, I believe so, yes.

Fisheries committee  Do you mean mackerel?

Fisheries committee  Well, you just see them on the sounders. They've been here all summer, and they're still here. You're not allowed to fish them, so we don't know. You can set the hooks down to get some for supper every night, no problem.

Fisheries committee  I'm here representing PAFFA, which stands for the Prospect Area Full-Time Fishermen’s Association. I just want to see what's going to be done here. I'm good. I'll talk to you later. I'm just listening.