Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the members of the panel and to DFO for being here. We appreciate your taking the time.
I have a few question I'd like to circle back to and come back to.
Obviously in the Scotia-Fundy region, it's listed as critical stock status. I believe the stocks have been declining for some time, and there have been some measures put in place since around 2001. With those reduced allotments or reduced catch levels in place, we're not seeing, I take it, the desired outcomes of the stock bouncing back. Would you say that there must be other factors involved here at this point that need to be looked at and examined besides just the catch levels, the amounts being caught?