Fisheries committee  DFO did.

Fisheries committee  I have four, if that's okay.

Fisheries committee  I think the tags in licensing should be reviewed. That could be done, I think. We used to get annual audits, and I think a lot of that's gone away, so that could be reactivated with a time frame and an action plan for the implementation of electronic logs. It was not meant to be staged in all fisheries at once, which we totally understand, but there is no real rollout, I think, for any fishery planned in the immediate future.

Fisheries committee  That's an interesting question. We are seeing areas change. Historic areas shift and things like that. We need to modify our enforcement and monitoring of those areas when things shift, not just keep focusing on the same areas, because things are changing out there. We're still trying to assess the impact of hurricane Fiona on Prince Edward Island.

Fisheries committee  I can't say that specifically, no, but we work with our dockside monitoring companies in that situation.

Fisheries committee  Yes. I would say that's accurate.

Fisheries committee  I think so. I would say it creates a lot of questions from non-indigenous fishers as to why we have the two—

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  Yes, but it is a legal carapace size.

Fisheries committee  I'm not sure about that. I'd have to defer to someone from the province.

Fisheries committee  One of the things we're seeing more often now is these lost fishing days also being part of the penalty. Perhaps an offender loses the first week of fishing at the start of the next season, which, typically, can be a very high-revenue week. Things like that in conjunction with fines, I think, are a good step forward.

Fisheries committee  Certainly, we support a better job being done and more resources being put towards monitoring and enforcement. I'll make a brief comment. There's a whole, huge, recreational fishery side that DFO has to regulate and oversee, too. It's not just the commercial fishery; there are lots of fisheries that they are responsible for.

Fisheries committee  I think consulting fishing groups and asking for specific recommendations would be a good thing. Most of what we proposed here today was more related to fines and penalties to discourage this being a cost of doing business.

Fisheries committee  That's an excellent point. We go back to the discussion in 2014. The original implementation date for electronic logs for lobster, for example, was to be 2018 or 2019, but it keeps getting moved. It's a significant capital investment, so it's very hard to get things implemented if there's no implementation date.

Fisheries committee  My understanding is that it's a widespread problem for our east coast fisheries.