Thanks very much to you, Mr. Chairman.
And to David and to your colleagues, thank you very much for coming today.
You indicated quite clearly that a lot of this was based on certain circumstances, certain conditions, and that's the part that makes me nervous. On page 8 it reads, “In cases of serious misreporting under certain circumstances...”. This is the part I get kind of confused by. It seems very, very weak and very vague, because we don't know what those certain circumstances will be.
When George Baker was the chair of this committee, we filed for international observer reports on various vessels operating within NAFO. We did get one after a year, and it was so blacked out that all we got was the name of the vessel and the days it fished. That was it, more or less.
So my first question for you is this. Are international observer reports open to the public for inspection or open to a committee like us, so we can investigate exactly what was said and done on a particular fishing vessel's voyage?