Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the Minister responsible, I am prepared to support the development of a strategy, in partnership with the fishermen of Hay River, to look at how we can best make use of the existing allocated resources by this government in support of the fishing industry and to look at a strategy that would look at how we can best harvest and market this resource from Great Slave Lake. We would look at the present subsidy and whether the resource using that subsidy is being used to the maximum benefit of the industry and the fishermen and look at questions of whether being members of the Fresh Water Fish Marketing Corporation is in fact being maximized to the full benefit of the fishermen or whether or not we should review being members at all at this time. The department and its' officials have, I believe, begun some preliminary discussions with the fishermen to begin development of a strategy together with them. It is my commitment that we are prepared to fund the development of a strategy as long as the fishermen take the lead in doing that work. Thank you.
Stephen Kakfwi on Question 541-13(4): Plan For The Great Slave Lake Fishery
In the Legislative Assembly on June 4th, 1997. See this statement in context.
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Question 541-13(4): Plan For The Great Slave Lake Fishery
Item 6: Oral Questions
June 3rd, 1997
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