I'll call this meeting to order.
I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome our guests. Thank you for taking the time today to join us. We appreciate you coming before this committee and providing some input.
As you probably are well aware—I'm sure the clerk has made you aware—we're studying closed containment aquaculture. We certainly look forward to your views.
The general process is that we allow 10 minutes for opening statements. Then we go into questions. If I interject at times during the questions, it's because members have constraints placed on them for time for questions and answers. Sometimes they try to get in as many as possible, but in the interests of fairness, we try to keep everybody to the same timeframe.
Once again, ladies, thank you for appearing before this committee today.
Ms. Crocker, I believe you're going to come forward with an opening statement. I'd ask that you introduce your associate as well. Please proceed any time you're ready.