I want to thank the witnesses today, because they've been able to add some technical merit to some of the things we've been hearing from people in the industry. So I really want to thank the presenters today.
We had a tragedy about eight years ago. Don Caldwell lost his life at sea. It was the first day of crab fishing and he was setting out in the Glace Bay Hole. He had a bigger boat tied up at the wharf in Glace Bay, but because of the licensing, he wasn't allowed to take it, and away he went.
Some of the statistics you shared with us today...anecdotally, it seems to me the vast majority of accidents or occurrences take place on the opening day, on the setting day. Whether it's crab or lobster, or whatever it might be, there's a disproportionate number of instances there, not that there's a huge number, but there's a disproportionate number on that opening day.
Is my assumption or my perspective true, and would any statistics support that assumption?