Thank you very much, Danny and Jim. I'm pleased to have you here.
Danny, you mentioned retirement. Something I have promoted somewhat and intend to continue to promote is a retirement package.
Also, before we get into that, I'd like you to talk a bit about their request to reduce and to take other measures. From what I understand, you're barely surviving in the fishery. Governments are great to ask you to do things, sometimes without fully understanding the impact on somebody that, as Jim said, stands at the front of the boat and really does the work and has to pay the bills. I'd like you to elaborate a bit on just exactly what they are asking you to do and how it's impossible to do it, and with that, how important the retirement program would be through the federal government.
You told me there were seven or nine retired and two shelved. Do you agree that they should be shelved? I understand a licence that's shelved is something you can take off the shelf. What I've been promoting is to make sure there is nothing on the shelf anywhere and to make sure that when they're gone, they are gone. Because if you don't do that—I think you have indicated in your statement too—if it's giving people help to buy the boats then they just shift and put the pressure on the area...if there is good fishing, everybody goes to that area. Unless you take licences out of the system, you cannot reduce the effort.
Would that be a fair evaluation?