This fishing industry today is booming. There's every reason to believe that we can sustain that dramatic growth into the future. We are managing most of our commercial fish stocks now on a sustainable basis.
As I mentioned in my introduction, the biggest challenge in many ways is going to be finding the people to keep this industry going in its current structure. You just passed a new Fisheries Act that clearly identifies a policy objective to retain ownership and control of access rights within communities and within the harvesting sector. The really interesting question for me now is this: To the extent that the expansion and development of indigenous fisheries will help meet some of our human resources needs, people in our fishing communities, how do we ensure that it all happens within a framework of a community-based, independent, owner-operated driven fishery?