Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you all for being here. We'd like to see you more often, but it's like pulling teeth to get the minister and the officials here.
Earlier in the minister's testimony, he referred to the B.C. salmon restoration and innovation fund being a parallel or a mirror of the Atlantic fisheries fund. That's an interesting comparison.
From what we've seen, most of the funding in the Atlantic fisheries fund has been geared toward the upgrading of equipment, processing and more efficiencies within the fishing and processing fleet.
I beg to differ, but I don't believe that's necessary on the B.C. coast. In fact, the opposite may be true. We may be overfished for the state of our stocks.
Is that the case? Was the minister incorrect in stating it's going to mirror the Atlantic fisheries fund?