Well, they might have been; you're probably right, Mr. Byrne.
I was there for the christening of theCape Kuper this past Thursday, in fact, in the Victoria area. The interesting thing about that is that the woman who christened the boat is a first nations woman whose son is one of the crew members. We have two first nations people serving as the crew. It's a training project as they develop the crew for the new boat, and that's a major success.
One of our people on the west coast, Les Palmer, our coast guard member, was just awarded the Cross of Valour for saving a couple of lives by plowing through snow to reach two people who had been shipwrecked, by keeping them alive until help came. So there are so many good stories about the coast guard, but I don't have to tell you that, because during our trip, particularly on the west coast, it was you who garnered the information that gave us this incentive to move forward with the coast guard.
As for the results in relation to hake, maybe David would add on to that, but before we get into that, just let me say a couple of things in relation to the estimates of catch in the hake.
The hake, which was worth nothing a few years ago, is something like the Greenland halibut or turbot on the east coast, which nobody bothered with and now everybody wants to bother with it. Again, regarding getting value for that, Mr. Stoffer certainly has been very interested in what goes on in Nunavut in relation to that, and that is a major issue. We have to try to get maximum benefit from our resource, and we're not doing it.
I'll make sure there's some time left for Mr. Bevan.