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House Hansard - 77

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 30, 2022 11:00AM
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Mr. Vance Badawey (Niagara Centre, Lib.)
  • May/30/22 2:08:34 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, representatives of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence stakeholder communities are today visiting Parliament Hill to share their vision for the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence. Then, later tonight, we are hosting an event for MPs, Senators and staff to learn more about the triple bottom line impacts of this massive freshwater system. Representatives from the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, the OFAH, the Council of the Great Lakes Region, the Ontario Commercial Fisheries’ Association and more will be on hand to take questions and to showcase the great things happening in the area. These resources are binational treasures that we hold in trust for future generations. They support hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in trade and economic output. They are a source of clean drinking water for millions, and they are part of an environmental trust we all share. I thank these groups for helping to keep the Great Lakes great, and I thank all members of the House for supporting this essential work.
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Mr. Clifford Small (Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame, CPC)
  • May/30/22 3:08:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the fishing industry is sick and tired of the lack of respect shown to it by the government. With the season now upon them, fishers in Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame and in all of Newfoundland and Labrador are wondering where the capelin management plan is. DFO's own science says that seals consume 99 times more capelin than fishermen harvest. This year, the assessment did not happen. With these facts in mind, will the minister confirm that she will reinstate last year's quota for capelin, or will she listen to activists like Oceana and shut another fishery down?
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Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:16:56 p.m.
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Madam Chair, Marshall I states that the indigenous right to participate in the unregulated fishery of 1761 is a right to participate in the regulated fishery of today. Why, then, for at least the last three years, has the DFO allowed out-of-season lobster fishing in southwest Nova Scotia?
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Hon. Joyce Murray
  • May/30/22 8:17:17 p.m.
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Madam Chair, I am not clear which fishery the member is referring to. The Supreme Court ruling was that the Mi'kmaq communities have a right to moderate livelihood fisheries and food, social and ceremonial fisheries.
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Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:17:38 p.m.
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Madam Chair, it was the lobster fishery in southwest Nova Scotia. They were fishing out of season in the summer. Will that happen again this summer?
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Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:17:59 p.m.
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Madam Chair, former DFO and CMP officers testified at the House of Commons fisheries committee that 90% of the FSC fishery in southwest Nova Scotia is an illegal commercial fishery. Why does the minister continue to allow that to happen?
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Hon. Joyce Murray
  • May/30/22 8:22:21 p.m.
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Madam Chair, the Marshall agreement does not set a limit, so when nations come forward and request to have access to a moderate livelihood fishery in a particular fishery, we, on a—
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Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:24:01 p.m.
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Madam Chair, the minister recently decided to shut down the commercial Atlantic mackerel fishery. Two primary sources of science used by DFO to understand the science are stock catch data and spawning biomass. Can the minister tell us what temperature the water in the gulf needs to be for Atlantic mackerel to spawn?
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Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:25:43 p.m.
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Madam Chair, wow. I guess the minister knows a lot about the science when she shuts down a fishery. Has the Minister read the 2005 Supreme Court decisions known as the Bernard and the Stephen Marshall cases?
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Hon. Joyce Murray
  • May/30/22 8:26:54 p.m.
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Madam Chair, I am pleased to have been able to provide moderate lively fishery in the elver fishery for those who were asking for it. With the co-operation of the non-indigenous harvesters, we were able to utilize the—
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Mrs. Caroline Desbiens (Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île d'Orléans—Charlevoix, BQ)
  • May/30/22 8:42:45 p.m.
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Madam Chair, I am pleased to speak this evening. On March 30, the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard closed the herring and mackerel fishery in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with no prior notice that would have enabled fishers to pivot and come up with a plan B. When did the department first observe a drop in the biomass of spring herring and mackerel?
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Mrs. Caroline Desbiens
  • May/30/22 8:46:04 p.m.
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Madam Chair, I would like to know whether the minister believes that just closing the fishery is enough to restore the stocks, since the mortality rate from fishing for this species is about 6%. I am wondering whether she believes that closing the fishery will be enough to restore the resource.
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Mrs. Caroline Desbiens
  • May/30/22 8:47:00 p.m.
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Madam Chair, did the minister receive the unanimous motion tabled on April 7 by the Quebec National Assembly calling for compensation for the financial losses incurred by fishers affected by the closing of the fishery? Is the minister aware of that unanimous motion from the Quebec National Assembly?
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Mrs. Caroline Desbiens
  • May/30/22 8:51:07 p.m.
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Madam Chair, at a parliamentary committee at the National Assembly of Quebec, Quebec's department of agriculture, fisheries and food revealed that DFO and its minister did not notify the Quebec government before suspending the mackerel and herring fishery, even though they are supposed to. We in Quebec would like to know why.
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Mrs. Caroline Desbiens
  • May/30/22 8:51:49 p.m.
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Madam Chair, we will stick to small fish. It will do me good to speak about something other than capelin, but I will come back to that. What statistics did the department use to make its decision to suspend mackerel and herring fishing? Does the department have data from fishers outside Quebec? The fishers in the pelagic fishery in Gaspé say they are pretty much the only ones to report their catches. What does the minister think of the fishers' statement?
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Mrs. Caroline Desbiens
  • May/30/22 8:53:20 p.m.
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Madam Chair, I will repeat my question. What data did the DFO use to make this decision? Did they use the figures provided by fishers in the Gaspé pelagic fishery, who stated that they are the only ones to report their catches? Did the department use those figures when it decided to close the fishery this year?
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Hon. Joyce Murray
  • May/30/22 8:54:19 p.m.
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Madam Chair, I just want to say I too feel that disappointment when I have to close a fishery, but it is for the long-term good of fishers, communities and fish stocks.
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Hon. Joyce Murray
  • May/30/22 8:56:40 p.m.
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Madam Chair, we have advisory committees for each fishery, and we always listen to fishers and people who have information about the fisheries.
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Hon. Joyce Murray
  • May/30/22 8:57:39 p.m.
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Madam Chair, I am happy to say we heard the member of Parliament and we took action. We had a discussion with all of the stakeholders on the capelin fishery. That fishery started five days ahead of planned, and we are now considering the April 1 opening date that the member and the two weir fishers have requested. I think the department and I have been very responsive, and I am happy to have done that.
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Ms. Lisa Marie Barron
  • May/30/22 9:06:23 p.m.
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Madam Chair, last year's Oceana Fishery Audit highlighted that one-third of all of Canada's fish stocks remained uncertain due to insufficient data. When will DFO ensure that all of Canada's stocks have sufficient assessments completed?
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