Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
In answer to the question, I would say that there are 325 lobster fishers in our fleet. Most boats are 45 feet or less, and we engage in various types of fishing. Primarily we do lobster fishing, but we do fish for herring, mackerel and groundfish, and sometimes even hunt seals.
How far offshore do we go? Twenty or twenty-five miles—it all depends on the type of fishing we are doing. For groundfish, we go out further. For lobster, we go about 20 miles out around the island, but not much further than before, when we were not asked to have stability tests done on our boats. We go there today, but we went there before too. So don't tell me that I am now going where I wasn't going before. I've always gone where I go now. I don't go out further than I used to. That holds for most fishers.