Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for being here today again.
I'm going to follow a line similar to Mr. Byrne's and talk on the assessment and the recalculation of the biomass.
When Mr. Moriyasu gave us the numbers that day, he started with some pretty significant numbers for 1985. For 1995 they were a little lower, and for 2005 they were a little bit lower. I guess I twigged to that, because it makes me wonder if we're going to see a continual decline in peaks every ten years. When you start at 150,000-and-some tonnes in 1985, and all of a sudden we're down to a significantly lower peak in 2005, it makes me wonder what kind of signal that's sending and what message DFO is taking away from that. That's my first question.
The second one is that Mr. Haché gave us some numbers from Moncton, as Mr. Byrne mentioned, and he sort of suggested that in the last number of years the harvesters have felt that DFO has been pretty close in its numbers. They believe that back in the mid-1990s the extrapolation that you did back was much higher, so that we're really not seeing that declining. Can you help me understand? I guess when you plot these two numbers, they end up being quite different on the graph. Can you explain that difference? And are you concerned that, if we believe DFO's numbers, there's a hugely declining peak every ten years?