Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for appearing today, both here in person and by video conference.
Trevor, to your comment about the H's being there or not there, I will let you know that for the translators who are here today, at least one of them did travel to Newfoundland to do part of the cod study. He was there with us in St. John's, but we didn't feel that was good enough, so we took him to Port de Grave and to Fogo Island. He has learned by baptism of fire, if nothing else, and I'm sure he was able to keep up.
For my first couple of questions, of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't point them toward the minister of fisheries for Newfoundland, being somewhat of a colleague to some degree, I guess. I'd like to hear more explanation on a couple of things that he spoke of.
Firstly, Minister Crocker, in your presentation, you spoke about bringing the current owner-operator policy and fleet separation policy into legislation as part of the Fisheries Act. Can you expand on that concept? Also, what would the actual value of that be to Newfoundland and Labrador, especially to rural communities?