Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I think that this is probably the most interesting, the most frustrating and the most open debate that I have taken part in as a member of this committee.
We're hearing totally different stories. We're about to confront a tidal wave of responsibility if we consider ourselves wheels in a large machine called the Government of Canada that is now poised to accept this responsibility.
Thank you for coming and for giving your very direct answers.
If there were one question that I could ask, I think it would be this. Given that we are receiving such contrasting stories, what is the epistemology, the theory of knowledge, on what we can do to resolve these things?
Presumably everybody in this debate wants the fish to survive and thrive. There has to be a lot of common ground.
What's the next step, Dr. Sheppard, to move us to a stage where we can compare apples to apples and then do something that will promote that ultimate goal of preserving the fish stocks?