Thank you, Mr. Chair. Congratulations on your re-election. I know it was a tough campaign.
We would like to welcome Rodger and Joyce to the committee. I think this might be the first time that British Columbians are so well represented; I think they have a majority per province here, and that's always a good thing. So welcome, and we look forward to working with you.
I agree with Raynald that we need to wrap up the snow crab study we did as expeditiously as we can. We agree that going to the west coast would be a good thing. Maybe we can talk about this at the steering committee, but we've talked about it in two respects already, one of which is the aquaculture focus, which is really what we were studying. Lawrence has mentioned trying to get some answers to the discrepancies in the salmon returns. They're two different issues, so we need to make sure we clearly understand what we're going out there to do.
I agree with Raynald as well that most of the Fisheries Act is actually 140-plus years old now, and it's probably due for modernization. Lawrence is right that once we get that it's going to be a lot of work for us, and that will probably be our main task at that point. I believe it's still coming, so I look forward to talking a bit more at the steering committee about the meetings and perhaps some other things that need to be looked at.