Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the guests for being here today.
I'm on the other coast, but I guess protecting our marine areas is important around the world. This is very interesting.
Dr. Sumaila, how important do you think the new technology we have today is to gather resources? We've heard from different witnesses that it's very hard to monitor expansive MPAs in the ocean. How do you monitor them? How do you make sure they're not exploited, or how do you know the monitoring is working?
Where do you think technology is today? Do you think we are doing much better today with it and can gather hard data on the numbers we're trying to get?