Your sound is bad, but you say there's a blurring. That's important for this committee to get clear. What is the area where the government must be on guard to protect the blurring from offshore?
Offshore has always been corporately controlled. What has triggered some discussion is the sale of a large corporation that has access to resources of the state, and how that might encroach on the inshore fishery. There was also a discussion on the ownership of processors, but this committee has no great control over who buys independent processing companies. The processing sector is licensed by provincial governments, not the Government of Canada.
I want to focus my question on the concern that inshore fishers have as it relates to the sale of corporations that have access to offshore resources through licences or through a quota allocation.