I can touch on the dredging part and the breakwater. Old Perlican had its first breakwater in the mid-1960s. The problem we had was that we never had the deep water. As the fishing boats got bigger and needed more draft, we needed more water to come in. We had our first phase of dredging out the channel to make it deeper two years ago. We had divers out last year. There's no infilling, so it's all copacetic. Everything is going well. We're presently at the second phase. It's only been a couple of years, but really there's no infilling. The first breakwater has been there since 1965. An older gentleman I've been talking to says it looks the same to him as it did back then. Nothing more has filled in inside there. It's just that it wasn't deep enough in the beginning for the bigger boats of the present time.
On April 14th, 2008. See this statement in context.