Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, everybody, and the committee, to New Brunswick. It's nice to be here, even though we're still a little way from my riding, but we're probably closer to Rodney's as well. I thank all the people from the community for coming out.
I would be remiss not to mention a couple of special people who have joined us. They are two reasonably local MLAs, Wayne Steeves from Albert and Mike Olscamp from Tantramar. Thank you, gentlemen, for coming out today.
I have a few questions I'd like to ask. We talked about decision-making, Greg, a while ago. Being a member of the Fisheries Resource Conservation Council, you're probably familiar with the report. Some of the testimony we've heard was that there's been quite a bit of effort in terms of rationalizing and what they call the Quebec initiative in the report. You've talked about some LFAs saying that they aren't really fussy about a buyback, but there are other areas where we probably do need to rationalize a little bit, and I do appreciate your concern that some would like to exploit less and some would like to fish harder. That's pretty consistent across the LFAs as well.
If some of these LFAs have had success in doing self-rationalization themselves, what types of things have you talked about in order to lower the exploitation rate, especially in LFA 36?