There is one item I would like to put on the radar screen for this committee, and it comes back to the issue of climate change, in this particular instance, the potential effects of climate change on lobster.
This has to do with ocean acidification as a result of the increased carbon in the atmosphere. More than a quarter of the carbon in the atmosphere is taken up by the ocean, which produces, through a chemical reaction, carbonic acid. And what it does to animals such as lobsters and other shellfish, besides destroying coral reefs, as you've heard, is that they cannot access the calcium carbonate they require to make their shells.
I don't have solutions for you, but I do think it's an issue that is exceedingly important and becoming more and more critical. Since we are talking about an animal on which we and many Atlantic communities depend, and one that could be most impacted by this, I think it's an issue that would be good for the committee to learn about in the future.
Now I'll turn it over to my colleague.