Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Sprout, for coming. It's an interesting issue and is complex in some ways. Thank you for helping us to understand it a little bit better.
As Ms. Bell has pointed out, there are two primary issues that are before us, and I think you've responded to them. One is the issue of transfer without compensation, and that's what was raised by the witnesses; at least two made a fairly passionate case for that when they appeared before us. You would agree, I think, that it is the department's position that when we transfer allocation we do compensate for it. Your position is that isn't what happened in this case because the existing spawn-on-kelp fishers continue to get their 16,000 kilos. Does that summarize your position?