Thank you. Mr. Speaker. It must have been a fairly good meeting and I am glad to see that the Ministers may indeed come to the Baffin and hold another meeting. My follow-up question to the Minister, will this government be following up on his initial meeting this past weekend to direct this government to actually sit down with the federal Minister of Fisheries, Mr. Mifflin, and to lobby on behalf of our fishermen? And also invite other major stakeholders, like Kekertaluk Corporation, to the meeting so the stakeholders themselves can be involved in the front-line, so they understand what is happening to the allocations and the situation regarding the quotas. So, my question would be to the Premier or the Minister of RWED, is he looking at a follow-up meeting, specifically with the federal Minister of Fisheries, Mr. Mifflin, on the adjacency and also on the awarding of quotas. Last year, we missed the boat on this. This year, we would like to see an increase in our quotas and look at some of the straggling stocks which are located in the B1 and the area adjacent to the Davis Strait and also the area south of Resolution Island.
Edward Picco on Question 381-13(4): Ministers' Of Fisheries Meetings
In the Legislative Assembly on February 24th, 1997. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 381-13(4): Ministers' Of Fisheries Meetings
Question 381-13(4): Ministers' Of Fisheries Meetings
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 23rd, 1997
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Edward Picco Iqaluit
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