Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all our guests, our witnesses, for being here and presenting excellent information.
Mr. Laughren, you emphasized a quality versus quantity fishery, and you feel the department doesn't have a real rebuilding plan for northern cod. You talked about the rebuilding targets and the upper reference point, etc. Then you gave us four main points and five very specific recommendations, which I think are excellent. They've been submitted here, so I hope this committee considers these five recommendations and includes those in our report, when we produce a report here and discuss recommendations and decide on them. I think these are very clear, and as I say, I hope they will be included. I certainly will be encouraging the committee to adopt these.
You're calling, obviously, for the department to engage in a rebuilding plan and have that included in the Fisheries Act. I'm wondering if there are other nations around the world that have experience with rebuilding plans. Can you talk to us a little bit about that and where Canada sits with such plans?