I'll close by saying that the fishermen's observations were all excellent this year, the harvest, the crab quality. On this scientific opinion matter, I had a discussion with scientists in Moncton during the season, and I asked them whether they had gone to the docks and whether they got on board the boats to see the situation. I told them to go and talk to a fisherman to get his observations. They answered that they didn't have the time. So what's being done? Is the only scientific survey this trawl survey that's done once a year to assess what's in the water?
The fishermen on the water are excellent scientific partners, but their knowledge isn't being used and their observations are being disregarded. The scientists have to be allowed to come and work as a team, to be on the docks, to go to sea. We tell them to come and see what's really going on at the wharf, what the actual situation is.