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Fisheries committee  Certainly. I can do that.

December 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dr. Minda Suchan

Fisheries committee  We support DFO in a variety of different places. For example, I mentioned the Philippines. We recently went out there to train some of the Filipino analysts on how to use DFO's dark vessel detection program. That is one area. We've also done that in Ecuador and a couple of other places globally.

December 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dr. Minda Suchan

Fisheries committee  I would say both, from my understanding.

December 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dr. Minda Suchan

Fisheries committee  Certainly, as I mentioned, sometimes I hear back anecdotally about some of the successes they have achieved using our technology. That is really exciting for me and my team to hear, but we really are a technology company providing that data to DFO and reports to DFO. How they choose to utilize it in terms of the end response is within their parameters, not ours.

December 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dr. Minda Suchan

Fisheries committee  We get asked to monitor certain areas very specifically, depending on DFO's needs. It's a back-and-forth conversation.

December 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dr. Minda Suchan

Fisheries committee  Not that I am specifically aware of, but certainly I know that my team works very closely with them on a daily basis, so—

December 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dr. Minda Suchan

Fisheries committee  That is correct.

December 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dr. Minda Suchan

Fisheries committee  Not that I know of specifically, or not at this time. Certainly we support questions that come to us through our customers, sometimes relating back to certain policies and procedures, but I haven't heard this specifically.

December 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dr. Minda Suchan

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. As long as it's above the water and not under the water, along coastlines and even on certain land areas, we are also able.... Radar technology can come in and monitor certain activity as well. There are various land and maritime applications. I've been focused a bit more on the maritime opportunities, but certainly it's along the coastlines as well.

December 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dr. Minda Suchan

Fisheries committee  Identification is different from detection. We pull in other sorts of—

December 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dr. Minda Suchan

Fisheries committee  Okay. Yes, we are, in certain circumstances.

December 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dr. Minda Suchan

Fisheries committee  Yes, that is something we work on in conjunction with customers like DFO.

December 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dr. Minda Suchan

Fisheries committee  I hear anecdotally about different things that occur through our customers, through DFO, where they have been able to leverage the technology through various means—for example, for drug interdiction—and that certain illegal activities were able to be stopped because of our technology.

December 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dr. Minda Suchan

Fisheries committee  In terms of IUU fishing as well, we do hear examples of successes, when they were able to board and to find illegal fishing activity, and they were able to confirm that. Our technology gave them data to successfully stop certain activities.

December 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dr. Minda Suchan

Fisheries committee  We do support some of the monitoring in the coastal regions, but I'm not sure how far inland and in what specific areas. Yes, we do try to also help domestically as well as overseas.

December 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dr. Minda Suchan