Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm sure this is something that will come out if we do this study, but maybe there's a simple answer here right now. Can DFO not change regulations or provide regulations that would allow for other bait to be used so that it doesn't have to be herring specifically?
I think that would be more a question for the department, the biologists and the science staff within the department, than it would be for this committee. Just looking at it, if you're going to go fishing for trout, you use this for bait, or if you're going fishing for that, you use this for bait. It's more a departmental regulatory issue than it is a major study.