Okay, good.
I see a lot of similarities between agriculture and fisheries. At the end of the day, you spend a bunch of money. You have a whole bunch of money going into input costs, whether it's fuel or fertilizer for the farmer or fuel and bait for you. We buy tractors; you guys buy boats.
At the end of the day, you're a price taker. You take your product into the market to whoever the buyer happens to be. In some cases we have boards. For example, in western Canada we have wheat and barley that has to be marketed through a government-made monopoly, and so on. We have supply management in certain areas. We have a whole hodgepodge of things there. Some things work well and some things don't work well.
What I'm getting at here with you guys, though, is that in agriculture we have income stabilization programs, because sometimes you have a good year, but you don't know what you're going to get when you're farming. It's no different when you're fishing. You don't know what you're going to get.
Do you have any recommendations for the committee insofar as any type of income stabilization?
In the Maggies we heard the fishermen there lobbying or pressing us to basically harmonize or merge agriculture and fisheries together for access to the income stabilization program.