Basically, my role as the industry specialist.... We didn't have an industry specialist for aquaculture for quite a long time. I was actually a policy analyst in the ministry. Largely, the reason for that was that we had a mandate to regulate the industry. Now that we don't have a mandate to regulate the industry and because we have other industry specialists for other agricultural commodities, like chicken and beef and grains and fruit crops, a decision was made to include an industry specialist for the aquaculture industry. Basically, I can provide expert advice to the industry and also provide expert advice to the executive here in the ministry.
On February 27th, 2012. See this statement in context.