I think one of the other comments was to the issue of displacement and in terms of jobs. Just in our community alone, as Karen has mentioned, there are 210 people directly employed by the lobster fishery alone on our two islands. With the particular lease applications approved for St. Mary's Bay, there was a promise of 16 jobs. Right now, as far as we know, there are six people employed at part-time, seasonal, minimum wage.... You can't compare that to the jobs already being provided by the lobster fisheries in our community. The jobs thing...it's a bit of a play there. In fact, the only community in Nova Scotia that really has any support for open-net salmon aquaculture is the one that has been promised a processing facility. That's it. Elsewhere—not at all.
On February 15th, 2012. See this statement in context.