In terms of transportation, there has been a lot of discussion about the cost of fuel. If you compare the cost of fuel in the Magdalen Islands to the cost in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, you will see that costs are higher here. If you ride around, you can check the prices at the pump. Fuel costs between 10¢ and 12¢ a litre, and even more, which makes for a considerable difference. For us, the cost of transportation between the Magdalen Islands and Souris has major consequences. The cost of delivering lobster to Boston from the Magdalen Islands is $4,750. Between PEI and Boston, it costs $1,500 less. My figures may not be perfectly accurate, but they are very close to reality. From New Brunswick, it is even cheaper. So, we are competing with the other provinces, and that has a major impact on our prices. We process the resource, which means that we have to import CO2. When we bring in CO2 from the other provinces, we have to pay for return transportation. If we go to Prince Edward Island, for example, one tank can certainly represent an additional $1,500 to $2,000.
On Prince Edward Island, there is a bridge to cross. We have to cross the same bridge and absorb the cost of crossing it. For every pound of lobster or fish, we estimate that our transportation costs are 15¢ or 20¢ higher than those in the other provinces. We also import product. If it is coming from Boston, we pay the cost of three trips for a single trip with processed products—in other words, two trips to bring it in and one trip going out. We buy live lobster from the Eastern United States, as do New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, but it costs us $4,750. We can about 50 per cent of the lobster. Our costs are extremely high.