Thank you, Mr. Kelloway.
I will say that generally lobster stocks are very healthy. The monitoring recently indicated that the fishing activities that are taking place have increased significantly in St. Peters Bay. The scale of the fishery operation currently there is actually even in excess of what is being proposed as first nation moderate livelihood fishing.
DFO is responsible for the overall management of Canada's fisheries and the stocks that they depend on. The fisheries officers are very concerned about the excessive fishing there and about how it could negatively impact the long-term sustainability. We are concerned about that. We want to make sure, as I have said every time I've talked about this issue, that conservation is the priority. As I've said, right now what's going on in St. Peters Bay is more than what even the first nations moderate livelihood plans have indicated they would be fishing.