Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for your good information.
I wanted to follow up on something initially raised by Mr. MacAulay, the issues of density and the whole aspect of animal welfare, because one of the issues that we all realize the industry deals with is the whole notion of social licence, that it needs to be perceived to be an industry that respects social values and so on.
Bear with me here, but if you're going to raise chickens for eggs or for meat, you can have free-range chickens that run inside and outside pretty much where they like. You have free-run chickens that are kept inside but have some ability to run around, and then you have the caged chickens. I think there's a decreasing social licence for the notion that we cram these chickens into cages and not let them run around, and then either take their eggs or take them and slaughter them after a certain number of days.
Would you expect this could be an issue, if it were raised? If you go up to, say, 80 kilograms density, or even 50 for these fish that are now already crammed together, swimming around in their own little pool, do you think that could become less socially acceptable?
If we consider the free-range to be the wild fishery and the net pens to be the free-run, and then we put them in these smaller pools—tubs, whatever—for whatever reason, do you think that could be an issue in the future?