Thank you.
We're both west coasters, I'm Nanaimo—Alberni, so I go from Georgia Strait all across to Tofino, Ucluelet, and Bamfield.
You'd be well aware that, just as an example of conflict, we reintroduced the sea otter not too many years ago, which is actually doing very well on the west coast of Vancouver Island. However, we had aboriginal folks here the other day, and one of them brought up the clam beds that had been there for thousands of years. They had raised clam beds, which would be an early form of aquaculture, but with the sea otters being very, very prolific—I've seen them on the west coast at Barkley Sound and up and down the island, even on the east side in Georgia Strait—a lot of them are coming back now and they're very successful at reproducing. The first nation word for them in the Nuu-chah-nulth language is literally, “he only eats the best”. They go in and take the most sexually mature among the shellfish and they're actually causing significant damage to first nations traditional clam beds and aquaculture projects. Then there's Dungeness crab on the west coast. They tell me out in Clayoquot Sound that the sea floor is littered with large male Dungeness crab shells. Are you aware of that particular situation?