First of all, I'm here representing the Association of Inshore Fishermen. We have 80-odd members and 320 licences here on the islands. In our community we also have a fishermen's cooperative that has been important in maintaining a competitive price here on the islands. We have 76 members of the cooperative. Again this spring, there's a new initiative by AQIP, for example, to try to control the price of lobsters here. They want to establish a maximum price again, and we're not in favour of that obviously. Whatever return we have goes back to members of the cooperative in our buying.
On March 30th, 2009. See this statement in context.