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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 39
Tuesday, February 19, 2002
The Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans met by videoconference at 9:06 a.m. this day, in Room 701, La Promenade Building, the Chair, Wayne Easter, presiding.
Members of the Committee present: Sarkis Assadourian, Andy Burton, John Cummins, Wayne Easter, Georges Farrah, Loyola Hearn, Dominic LeBlanc, Bill Matthews, Peter Stoffer, Tom Wappel.
Acting Member present: Serge Cardin for Jean-Yves Roy.
In attendance: From the Library of Parliament: Alan Nixon, Research Officer.
Witnesses: From the Department of Fisheries and Oceans: David Bevan, Director General, Resource Management; Paul MacGillivray, Regional Director, Fisheries Management, Pacific Region; Paul Ryall, Area Chief, Resource Management; Pablo Sobrino, Area Chief, Lower Fraser.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the Committee resumed its study of salmon fisheries management on the Fraser River (see Minutes of Proceedings of Tuesday, September 25, 2001).
Pursuant to the Committee’s Twenty-Four Hour Notice Motion adopted Wednesday, February 28, 2001, John Cummins gave notice of motion, - That the Committee hold a one-day public hearing in Vancouver within the next six weeks with the DFO officials responsible for managing the Fraser River fisheries.
Pursuant to the Committee’s Twenty-Four Hour Notice Motion adopted Wednesday, February 28, 2001, Peter Stoffer gave notice of motion, - That, in conjunction with any travel under Mr. Cummins’s motion for a hearing in Vancouver, the Committee visit potential aquaculture sites in the Broughton Archipelago and hear evidence on the current and likely impacts of the British Columbia government’s lifting of its moratorium on the authorization of new aquaculture sites, and that the Committee hear evidence from DFO officials on its preparedness to protect wild stocks and habitat with specific reference to the Auditor General’s report’s findings of significant gaps between DFO’s ability to protect stocks and habitat and the requisite protection.
Paul MacGillivray made a presentation and, with the assistance of the other witnesses, answered questions.
At 11:00 a.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Andrew Bartholomew
Chaplin
Clerk of the Committee