the temporary or permanent exclusion from the right to obtain new fishing rights.

These special rights include a guaranteed percentage of new commercial fishing licences and preferential harvesting rights.

The Spanish delegation abstained on the grounds that EU production was sufficient to meet the needs of the industry and that an EU-Mexico free-trade agreement already provided a substantial increase of imported fisheries products at preferential custom duties.

PRIVATE MEMBERS' BUSINESS Pursuant to Order made Monday, February 1, 1999, the House proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion of Mr. Thompson (New Brunswick Southwest), seconded by Mr. Muise (West Nova), That Bill C-302, An Act to establish the rights of fishers including the right to be involved in the process of fisheries stock assessment, fish conservation, setting of fishing quotas, fishing licensing and the public right to fish and establish the right of fishers to be informed of decisions affecting fishing as a livelihood in advance and the right to compensation if other rights are abrogated unfairly ...[+++], be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans.

With respect to aboriginal fishing activities in British Columbia during the period from March 31, 1992, to November 30, 1997, with the exception of salmon and herring fisheries: (a) which aboriginal groups received communal licences or other authorization to fish excluding commercial fishing licences of the same type issued to the all-canadian commercial fishing fleet in British Columbia; (b) what period did each licence include; (c) what species did each licence include; (d) what quantity of each species could be harvested under each licence; (e) what quantity of each species was reported as harvested under each licence; (f) what evidence does the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) possess to conclude that these aborigi ...[+++]nal groups have an aboriginal right to harvest the species for which the licence was issued in the area in which the fishing activities take place; (g) what evidence of pre-contact harvesting of the species did the aboriginal groups provide to convince DFO such that they now ought to be awarded an aboriginal licence; (h) were any coastal waters of British Columbia closed either permanently or temporarily to fishing by other Canadians to accommodate these aboriginal fisheries; (i) if certain areas were closed, which areas, for what period and to accommodate which aboriginal group fishing and for which species; (j) what evidence does DFO possess to conclude that an area closure was necessary to protect the claimed aboriginal fishing right; and (k) in the absence of a proven aboriginal right to fish, on what grounds or on what basis does DFO close waters to fishing by Canadians other than those belonging to a designated aboriginal group?

Q-51 Mr. Cummins (Delta South Richmond) With respect to aboriginal fishing activities in British Columbia during the period from March 31, 1992, to November 30, 1997, with the exception of salmon and herring fisheries: (a) which aboriginal groups received communal licences or other authorization to fish excluding commercial fishing licences of the same type issued to the all-canadian commercial fishing fleet in British Columbia; (b) what period did each licence include; (c) what species did each licence include; (d) what quantity of each species could be harvested under each licence; (e) what quantity of each species was reported as harvested under each licence; (f) what evidence does the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) posses ...[+++]s to conclude that these aboriginal groups have an aboriginal right to harvest the species for which the licence was issued in the area in which the fishing activities take place; (g) what evidence of pre-contact harvesting of the species did the aboriginal groups provide to convince DFO such that they now ought to be awarded an aboriginal licence; (h) were any coastal waters of British Columbia closed either permanently or temporarily to fishing by other Canadians to accommodate these aboriginal fisheries; (i) if certain areas were closed, which areas, for what period and to accommodate which aboriginal group fishing and for which species; (j) what evidence does DFO possess to conclude that an area closure was necessary to protect the claimed aboriginal fishing right; and (k) in the absence of a proven aboriginal right to fish, on what grounds or on what basis does DFO close waters to fishing by Canadians other than those belonging to a designated aboriginal group?