Mr. Chair, to sum up, it's been 21 years since the first of our groundfish fisheries was shut down with a commercial moratorium, and there is no recovery plan. What's missing from our industry is any kind of long-term vision for the groundfish fishery of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Now we're lifting minimum processing requirements, which is one piece of the puzzle. What astounds me and what I can't figure out is that for a lot of people at home, the question that's been raised is how this one piece of the puzzle will fit into the big picture. We have an absence of a long-term vision. We have no recovery plan, and now we're lifting minimum processing requirements. People don't see how this is going to shake out in terms of the future of our fishery.
In that light, I ask that we undertake the study.