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).