My first question—I have two—is for Mr. Gillis.
Mr. Gillis, when the minister was here, I asked a question about what seem to be impending cuts to the shrimp stocks off Newfoundland and Labrador. I know that in a later answer you mentioned how ocean conditions have impacts on stocks—a big impact. There's no doubt that warming water temperatures, for example, do have an impact, but in the fall in the commercial groundfish fisheries such as cod or flounder, for example, if you were to mention the impact of ocean conditions to anyone back home in Newfoundland and Labrador and say that it was a primary reason for why stocks fell, they'd laugh at you.
The bottom line is that I think what's generally acknowledged is that mismanagement and overfishing are behind the fall of most of our commercial groundfish fisheries, for example. Again, bringing it back to when the minister was here, now we see a huge decline in the biomass of shrimp. That's going to lead to huge cuts in shrimp quotas, and again you talk about ocean conditions, so I have to take you up on that. How much faith should people have in DFO science or in the department itself when we see commercial stock after commercial stock fall? The offshore shrimp is just the latest in a whole line of stocks that have fallen under this department. How much faith should we have in the science, sir?