Fisheries committee  Yes, that's it. The United States Alaskan crab threatens us too. The dollar, the diesel, the ice that you have to put on boats--

Fisheries committee  Indeed. Everything is going up. And last year the snow crab fishermen had $1 a pound, but the diesel was up, the ice was up, and they still had to pay everything that I mentioned to you. Those prices don't go down; they still go up. So we completely agree that the industry is i

Fisheries committee  This year....

Fisheries committee  Thank you, sir.

Fisheries committee  Fine. I will stand up.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Asselin. I would like to thank you all very sincerely for having invited us, having listened to us and having heard us. We hope that you will consider our case and that we will receive some encouraging responses in the not too distant future. I also want to thank

Fisheries committee  That depends on prices and the fleet, among other things.

Fisheries committee  I am not, but I can ask.

Fisheries committee  What is the average income of a crabber?

Fisheries committee  The stock will be threatened until 2010. There's a map here showing where the snow crab fishermen fish in zone 12. We can see that all around where the inshore fishers go, the crab has practically disappeared. There is none left, or there is less and less. These fishers are goi

Fisheries committee  I can say a few things. The Japanese buy their crab here too, but they buy a lot from the Russians, who have absolutely no....

Fisheries committee  Yes. The fishing plan for 2007 has been out for a few weeks and crab fishermen are fishing now.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  It had a huge impact on the industry, because traditional crabbers lost approximately one million pounds.

Fisheries committee  For 2007, we have proposed that, the same thing that I have read. But the fishing plan for 2007 is still giving quotas, TAC, to other ones.