Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Fisheries and Oceans

First Session, Forty-first Parliament, 2011

Chair: The Honourable FABIAN MANNING

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 (in camera)
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Issue No. 2

Third meeting on:

The study on issues relating to the federal government's current and evolving policy framework for managing Canada's fisheries and oceans

and

First and second meetings on:

The study on the management of the grey  seal population off Canada's East Coast

INCLUDING:
THE FOURTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Special study budget 2011-12 — The federal  government's framework for managing Canada's fisheries and oceans)

• Order of Reference
• Minutes of Proceedings - October 18, 2011 (in camera)
• Minutes of Proceedings - October 25, 2011
• Minutes of Proceedings - November 1, 2011
• Fourth Report
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - October 25, 2011 (14K)
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - November 1, 2011 (5K)

WITNESSES

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Fisheries and Oceans Canada:

David Balfour, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Ecosystems and Fisheries Management;

Siddika Mithani, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ecosystems and Oceans Science Sector;

Patrice Simon, Director, Environment and Biodiversity Science.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Fisheries Resource Conservation Council:

Gerard Chidley, Former Chairman;

Donald Walker, Former Vice Chairman;

Mike Calcutt, Acting Executive Director.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Fabian Manning, Chair

The Honourable Elizabeth Hubley, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Cochrane, *Cowan (or Tardif), *LeBreton, P.C. (or Carignan), Losier-Cool, Lovelace Nicholas, MacDonald, Oliver, Patterson, Poirier, Poy, Raine, Watt

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 85(4), membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The Honourable Senator Losier-Cool replaced the Honourable Senator Hervieux-Payette, P.C. (October 26, 2011).

The Honourable Senator Poirier replaced the Honourable Senator Frum (October 26, 2011).

The Honourable Senator Hervieux-Payette, P.C., replaced the Honourable Senator Losier-Cool (October 25, 2011).

The Honourable Senator Frum replaced the Honourable Senator Poirier (October 25, 2011).

The Honourable Senator Poirier replaced the Honourable Senator Marshall (October 19, 2011).

The Honourable Senator Marshall replaced the Honourable Senator Poirier (October 18, 2011).