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CHAIRMAN Mr. Jean Guy d'Entremont, Lower West Pubnico, Nova Scotia At age 23, Jean Guy skippered an inshore dragger and fished extensively in the Bay of Fundy, Scotian Shelf, and out around Sable Island. He successfully completed his Fishing Masters Class 4 course in 1987. After seven years as skipper, he regained a position on shore to help coordinate the fleet of 5 vessels once the ITQ system was put in place. In 1994, Jean Guy initiated the work to develop the Joint Industry/DFO ITQ groundfish survey that has been ongoing since 1995. Jean Guy was one of the original six fishermen that first sat down to develop a Canadian Code of Conduct for Responsible Fishing Operations in which the consensus code was adopted in 1998. In 1998, he was appointed to the Fisheries Resource Conservation Council by the Federal Minister of Fisheries. In 2002, the Minister appointed Jean Guy vice-Chair of the Council and as Chairman in November 2003. In 2000, Jean Guy’s peers appointed him Co-Chair of the North Atlantic Responsible Fishing Council Steering Committee. His duties have been co-chairing the 2nd and 3rd North Atlantic Responsible Fishing Conferences; in St. John’s, Newfoundland, in November of 2000, and on June 9-11, 2003 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The North Atlantic Responsible Fishing Council Steering Committee has the duty to promote responsible fishing practices across the North Atlantic. Vice chair Gerard Chidley, Renews, Newfoundland & Labrador Mr. Chidley holds a Fishing Masters Class I and an ON1 / Intermediate Voyage Certificate. He is owner and co-Captain of Multi-Species F/V Atlantic Champion and Ocean Alliance. He has a long history and extensive experience within the fishing industry as an Advisory Group Industry Representative on groundfish, pelagics and shellfish. He has served as ICCAT Commissioner, Crab Committee Chair and as an Inshore Council member on the FFAW. He is presently serving as NL ALPAC representative; CMAC member; NSAC member, Chair of the 3L Shrimp Committee as well as member of the Executive Board and Chair of the Harvesting Board of CCFI. Mr. Chidley is also a board member of One Ocean. Mr. Chidley is continuously involved with the promotion of conservation, sustainability, and responsible fishing. He is an avid promoter of education, professionalism and safety within the Industry. Mr. Chidley is actively involved with the many task forces and reviews for restructuring the fishing industry. MEMBERS Mr. Walter Bruce, South Lake, Prince Edward Island Walter Bruce graduated from Summerside Marine Centre in 1976 as a Home Trade Master (Captain). He has been a fisherman for the past 48 years as well as an active member of the Auxiliary Coast Guard for the last 25 years. He currently resides in South Lake, P.E.I. with his wife of thirty eight years and his grand daughter. Mr. Bruce has been active in his community having served as a volunteer fireman with the Eastern Kings Fire Department, Director of the Souris Hospital and trustee of the Kingsboro Baptist Church, of which he is currently a moderator. Mr. Bruce is currently Chair of the PEI Tuna Board for the P.E.I. Fishermen’s Association, the P.E.I. Atlantic Large Pelagics Advisory Committee representative and advisor to the delegation representing Canada at the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna. During his career Mr. Bruce has served as the Director of the Canadian Center for Fisheries Innovation, the Eastern Fishermen’s Federation and the Eastern Kings Regional Development Corporation. He has also been President of the P.E.I. Fishermen’s Association, the North Lake Fish Co-op and the North Lake Tuna Charters. Mr. Bruce represented the fishing industry at the First Ministers’ Conference in Halifax in the mid 1980s. Mr. Derek Butler, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador E. Derek Butler is the Chair of the Board and Executive Director of the Association of Seafood Producers, having joined the Association at its founding in 2004. He also serves on various industry boards, including One Ocean and the Business Coalition. As CEO Derek is responsible for the operations of the Association, Board management, industry and government relations, and public policy. Derek began his professional career with Foreign Affairs Canada, later working with the Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security. He later worked as a Legislative Aid in the Canadian parliament including in the offices of the Chief Government Whip and the Government Leader in the Senate. Immediately prior to working with ASP, Derek served as a Resident Director with the Washington-based National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, working in the Middle East and North Africa. Derek also teaches political science as a sessional lecturer at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Dr. Omer Chouinard, Moncton, New Brunswick Ms. Lina Condo, St-Jules, Québec Lina Condo is currently the Fishery Business Development Advisor with the Ulnooweg Development Group . In her role of Advisor, Lina is an active member of the Business Development Team which is part of the Atlantic Integrated Commercial Fisheries Initiative (AICFI). Lina has gained an extensive background in native fisheries development, particularly from working in her home province of Quebec. She held the position Director of Fisheries with the Gesgapegiag Band in the Gaspé region of Quebec for a number of years prior to establishing her own consulting business. Lina has been progressive in the implementation of policies and procedures for Atlantic First Nations commercial fisheries and has undertaken a leadership role in mentoring Mi’kmaq-Maliseet First Nations for a successful and sustainable fishery. She has implemented multi-year fisheries training plans, at-sea mentoring for fishers to gain knowledge and experience, and human resource policies. She has also participated on a number of fisheries advisory groups, including a group to develop new tools for Fisheries Operations Management using innovative information technology. Mr. Lewis Creed, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Mr. Bruce Hatcher, Sydney, Nova Scotia Bruce Hatcher, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., is Cape Breton University’s Chair in Marine Ecosystem Research, and Director of the revitalized Bras d’Or Institute at the University. Prior to this appointment he was a Professor of Biology and Director of the Marine Affairs Program at Dalhousie University. He is a founding member of the Elizabeth Mann-Borgese Centre for Ocean Governance, and serves on several national and international Boards and panels. Educated as a benthic ecologist and oceanographer in Australia, Canada and the United States, Bruce has 28 years post-doctoral experience in marine science and as a leader of a wide variety of grant and contract-funded research and development projects world-wide. His primary expertise lies in the application of ecological theory, empirical analyses and quantitative modeling to the better understanding and prediction of marine ecosystem function. He currently focuses on the use of synoptic ecological tools (e.g. remote sensing, numerical modeling & GIS) for the analysis of ecological connectivity and management decision support in coastal ecosystems. Bruce’s secondary expertise lies in building capacity for research and development in universities and the public and private sectors of the developing, appropriately and over-developed world. He has trained 61 graduate students at 5 Universities in 4 countries, and consults for the African Development Bank, World Bank, and United Nations Development Program. He served as co-editor of the Springer journal Coral Reefs for ten years, and continues to help young scholars and practitioners make an impact. Bruce has published more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific papers and prepared in excess of 40 technical reports. No “arm-chair ecologist”, he has worked in 25 countries and six seas, logging more than 650 days at sea and 1,700 hours working underwater. Dr. George Lilly, St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador Dr. Lilly received a B.Sc. in Biology from Memorial University of Newfoundland and a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of British Columbia. He joined DFO in 1978 as a research scientist in the Gadoids Section, with particular interest in the interactions between cod and its prey, notably capelin and shrimp. Dr. Lilly retired from DFO in 2007, but continues to publish papers on cod and its ecosystem, with particular interest in comparisons between the marine ecosystem off Labrador and eastern Newfoundland and ecosystems elsewhere in the North Atlantic. Mr. Mike O’Connor, Chester, Nova Scotia Mr. O’Connor has been involved with the fisheries since 1982. He has worked as an Advisor for DFO, Manager Fleet Operations for National Sea Products and High Liner Foods, Director and past Chairman for Seafood Producers of Nova Scotia, and both as Director and Vice Chairman for the Fisheries Council of Canada. He is currently the Managing Director, Icewater Harvesting Inc. Arnold’s Cove, Newfoundland, Co Chair, Canada USA Transboundary Management Committee and Director, Groundfish Enterprise Allocation Council. In addition, Mr. O’Connor is a member of the Atlantic Halibut Council. Mr. Gregory Thompson, Dipper Harbour, New Brunswick Greg Thompson has been a full time commercial fisherman in the Bay of Fundy since 1973. Before that he worked as a fisherman in the summers while attending University. He received a Bachelor of Science from UNB (1970) and a Masters in Mathematics from Clarkson college of Technology (1972). He obtained his Fishing Masters IV at St Andrews Community College. Greg has drift netted for Atlantic salmon, operated a herring weir, crewed on a purse seiner and longlined for cod. He currently fishes for lobster and drags for scallops and groundfish from his 45ft vessel, Macusela. He has worked in Fundy North Fishermen’s Association for 30 years. The wise use of marine resources for the benefit of the community has always been his emphasis. Greg and his wife Jill live in Dipper Harbour N.B. and have 3 sons who all crewed on the Macusela in the summers while attending University. Mr. Donald Walker, Shigawake, Quebec Mr. Walker has been working in the fishery for almost 30 years in the Baie des Chaleurs. In addition to his primary lobster fishery, he actively fishes for rock crab, herring and mackerel. For almost 20 years, Mr. Walker has been involved as a sub-area representative, vice-president and, in the past few years, president of the Regroupement des pêcheurs professionnels du sud de la Gaspésie (RPPSG). Mr. Walker has always been involved in implementing conservation measures, especially in the lobster fishery following the FRCC’s 1995 report. Since 2003, he has also been involved in various conservation measures affecting the exploratory rock crab fishery, including proposed escape devices for by-catches. Mr. Walker is very familiar with the workings of the inshore fishery in the southern Gulf and has a thorough understanding of the dynamics between the main players involved. As president of RPPSG, he plays a major role in conservation measures for inshore species and takes responsibility for the 125 members of his organization. Finally, DFO recognizes Mr. Walker’s leadership qualities, as he often leads by example and continues to be a proud partner in the Gaspésie Bas-Saint-Laurent area and the Quebec region. EX OFFICIO MEMBERS Mr. Mike Calcutt, Senior, Fisheries Resource Management Officer. Mr. David Gillis, Director, Fish Population Science Mr. Barry Rashotte, Director General, Fisheries Management. Mr. Marc Vachon, Senior Advisor, Intergovernmental Affairs. From the Provincial Governments and Territories: Mr. Wayne Lynch, Nunavut. Mr. Tom Dooley, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Mr. Joseph LaBelle, Province of New Brunswick. Mr. David MacEwen, Province of Prince Edward Island. Mr. François Montminy-Munyan, Province of Quebec. Mr. Clary Reardon, Province of Nova Scotia. |
