Fisheries committee  I would expect something along the lines of a weekly TAC per individual. There would be no sale of the fish. It would be just fish for personal use. Obviously, it would all be 100% monitored. Maybe there'd be limitations on gear. Currently in the commercial fishery, we were all

Fisheries committee  It would be things like that.

Fisheries committee  Melanie ceded her time to me.

Fisheries committee  Absolutely, we'd prefer to be fishing every day of the week. It's been a major strain on me, my family and my circle of peers to not have a job to go to every day. That's how we have spent our summers and our falls since I bought in seven seasons ago, and now I have nowhere to t

Fisheries committee  Yes, we've seen them on the waters. It's hard to know the size, because we're not fishing. As far as being able to see mackerel on a sounder goes, that's how I made my living for the last seven years. Quite frankly, mine will even tell you the length if you want to dial it in a

Fisheries committee  The main thing I would like to state here is that at the AMAC meetings there's a large representation of the seiner fleet. At the AMAC meetings, many of the people representing the seiner fleet are also wearing the hat of an international company that can import the bait or the f

Fisheries committee  This is what I'm hearing, as well as that many of the large companies based in Newfoundland and some of the larger companies in the Maritimes that are doing the importing of fish from the U.S. or from Europe to replace our local supply are now profiting from the loss of our fishe

Fisheries committee  I don't know if we see a perspective different from the science. We do see fish everywhere in the ocean. I know I was just out tuna fishing this year, and there was nowhere that I went where there were no mackerel available. Size is definitely an issue sometimes. Usually it's ver