Fisheries committee  To me, resiliency will mean fishing enterprises operating in a much more hostile environment. By environment, I obviously mean the sea. The sea is getting angrier and angrier at everybody who's on it. These new installations or these investments will have to keep track of the fac

Fisheries committee  Sure. What was particularly effective was raising seawalls. I stress again that what really causes a lot of damage is less the wind and more the storm surge, so the idea behind protecting wharf infrastructure is beating back this storm surge. To me, the most important piece of i

Fisheries committee  I think that's a very good question, Mr. Perkins. Time is of the essence, because the spring season, as you mentioned, is coming, but the real particular problem is the availability of materials to build these traps. There are really serious backlogs, from what I'm hearing from f

Fisheries committee  No traps, no fishing—it's that simple.

Fisheries committee  These were programs that were put in place maybe seven or eight years ago. These were pretty significant investments made across Atlantic Canada. In my neck of the woods—or my neck of the sea, I should say—there's been some pretty significant investment in wharves in southeaste

Fisheries committee  That's a good question. I can't answer that question, to be honest. That would definitely be an interesting project.

Fisheries committee  I'm not sure of the exact timing. I think it might have started a little bit before that, maybe 10 years ago. That did occur since 2015, yes. It's also a long-term project.

Fisheries committee  It's definitely more difficult to qualify for employment insurance if there are fewer fishing days on the water, obviously. It's been difficult this year. I haven't heard of any direct problems as of now, but we're fresh off of fishing season. In general, the comments from fish

Fisheries committee  Elsewhere in Atlantic Canada, there are mechanisms that allow the opening of a fishery to be brought forward instead of only being able to push it back. The problem when the opening date is pushed back is that we lose fishing days, since the closing date is not also pushed back.

Fisheries committee  One particular piece of infrastructure that's really important is the seawall. Basically, the more robust the seawall is, the better it stops the storm surge. The storm surge is really what causes a vast majority of the damage. It's not wind. In some places—for example, in easter

Fisheries committee  That's correct. The first seawall basically takes the brunt of the storm surge, and the second one is there to pick up the rest. It really works.

Fisheries committee  Particularly in southeastern New Brunswick, a vast majority of the wharves have been significantly worked on. It's less true in other areas of the Maritimes. In terms of proportion, probably 50% to 60% of the wharves have been invested in, and the others not so much. Once again,