Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's good to be here this morning.
Before I start with the first question, I will provide a bit of information.
Mr. Efford asked a couple of questions with regard to the science and where the biomass is right now, and why we don't know. Actually, Mr. Efford, for your information, DFO officials and scientists appeared before the committee last week in Ottawa, and the biomass right now is estimated at approximately 300,000, which is still well below where they would like to see it. It's still rated as being in the critical zone, and I think it's probably in the next year that they will do a full stock assessment again, which will give new numbers for that. I think they were probably providing us with 2015 numbers at that time.
I'll start off with a question for you, Minister Crocker. Basically, how does the province see the northern cod fishery of the future?