Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I was expecting more presentation, but I'm glad that we have more time for questions.
Thank you, Ms. Reid, for your presentation and for being here today to help clarify what has taken place.
In your opening remarks you mentioned that a key part of DFO's mandate is to sustainably manage Canada's fisheries. I fully support this statement and mandate, but it's unclear how DFO's reinterpretation that will outlaw tubbing will promote sustainable management of the spot prawn industry. What is clear is that the determination to outlaw tubbing has cast the future of some 600 B.C. prawn harvesters into great uncertainty.
Does DFO have a plan for assisting the harvesters who could be forced to surrender their livelihood because of the department's reinterpretation?