Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for coming to help us understand this issue a little better.
Fundamentally, I guess, the witnesses before you disagree on the size of the biomass. And the reason is that they don't trust the methods that were used to arrive at the department's estimate of the biomass. In their testimony they talked about things like the methodology that was used, that there's a new boat for the northern gulf test fishery, while in the southern gulf we're still using 1970s technology.
I don't want to spend too much time on this, but I wonder if you could comment on the methodology, what you have done to arrive at your estimate of the biomass.