Thank you, Madam Chair.
My question is for Ms. Burridge.
In your comments, you referenced the need for stability and predictability in the licensing policy. You referenced social policy as a part of licensing conditions, and that it was scaring young people from the industry. We had, in a previous meeting, several young B.C. fishers present to the committee. Their concern was the lack of protection of owner-operators within the B.C. fishery.
You claim to represent more than 90% of the commercially harvested seafood. How does that relate to the actual number of fishers who harvest?