Great, thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank everybody on the committee again for fast-tracking this very important study.
Mr. Atkins, I was talking to a former fisheries officer who is baffled at why this would happen. In the 1970s and 1980s, he said they always took a collaborative approach, working with the industry. In fact, it was industry that came forward with the recommendations on the size of the prawns because of the market. He said that the conservation was done by the spawner index.
Can you tell us a bit about how the spawner index works and how it doesn't have anything to do with size in terms of conservation?