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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
 
Meeting No. 81
 
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
 

The Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans met at 11:05 a.m. this day, in Room 268, La Promenade Building, the Chair, Rodney Weston, presiding.

 

Members of the Committee present: Mike Allen, Robert Chisholm, Patricia Davidson, Fin Donnelly, Randy Kamp, Hon. Lawrence MacAulay, Robert Sopuck, Philip Toone, Jonathan Tremblay, John Weston, Rodney Weston and Stephen Woodworth.

 

In attendance: Library of Parliament: Thai Nguyen, Analyst.

 
The Committee proceeded to the consideration of matters related to Committee business.
 

Lawrence MacAulay moved, — That, due to the current crisis being faced by the Canadian lobster fishery, the Committee, whether or not the House of Commons is in session, immediately convene a study on the current crisis, including but not limited to hearing from witnesses such as provincial and federal fisheries officials, lobster harvesters, processors, shippers/distributors, and retailers, from Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador, that the Committee make recommendations to the Government to rectify the crisis and strengthen the economic viability of lobster fishers, and that the report and recommendations be tabled in the House of Commons no later than September 2013.

 

On motion of Randy Kamp, it was agreed, — That the Committee proceed to sit in camera.

 

At 11:07 a.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 11:08 a.m., the sitting resumed in camera.

 

It was agreed, — That the Sixth Report from the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure, which read as follows, be concurred in as amended:

Your Subcommittee met on Tuesday, June 4, 2013, to consider the business of the Committee and agreed to make the following recommendations:

1. That, in relation to the study on Northern and Arctic Fisheries, the study be divided into two parts:

• The Western Arctic (Yukon and the Northwest Territories); and

• The Eastern Arctic (Nunavut and northern Québec and Labrador).

2. That the first part of the study be dedicated to the Western Arctic.

3. That the study of fisheries in the Western Arctic include the following:

• The potential for commercial fisheries;

• Subsistence and domestic fisheries with possible implications for Canada;

• State of recreational fisheries;

• Aquaculture;

• Salmon fisheries including relationships with the United States;

• Sustainability of fish stocks;

• Aquatic invasive species; and

• Co-management.

4. That, throughout its study, the Committee consider the implications of climate change.

5. That, as part of the study, the Committee visit the Western Arctic including the following communities:

• Whitehorse (Yukon government is responsible for freshwater fisheries management);

• Dawson City (placer mining has unique management issues);

• Juneau, Alaska (bilateral issues with the United States such as Beaufort Sea management and Yukon River salmon);

• Yellowknife (NWT’s government will be responsible for fisheries management after devolution);

• Hay River (Great Slave Lake commercial fishery); and

• Inuvik (Mackenzie Delta/Beaufort Sea subsistence fisheries, fisheries co-managed with the Fisheries Joint Management Committee).

 

At 11:50 a.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

 



Georges Etoka
Clerk of the Committee

 
 
2013/06/27 8:26 a.m.