Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To the witnesses, one of the things you've done here today is you've opened up all these issues, provided testimony to the committee on opening dates, the HST issue, the hail-in system. It's now on record, so the committee has an opportunity now to further investigate. While we may not be able to be as fulsome in our presentations as you'd like, it's now on record. We can use that in terms of our committee reporting. That's why this is all valuable.
I'd like to spend a lot more time on a whole bunch of different issues, but I wanted to zero in on something that really concerns me.
John, I'll quote directly from your presentation. It says, “...the DFO 'daily hail' system is shut down.”
You go on to say:
Sealers were advised that DFO would compile catch information and advise further if the harvest would reopen. The next day was Good Friday, April 14. DFO did not operate that day, nor did they operate on Saturday, April 15, Sunday, April 16, or Monday, April 17.
That leads to catch overruns in certain instances, doesn't it?