Very well.
Mr. Vigneault, I’d like to come back to the shrimp industry. When testifying before us in 2022 on this subject, department officials stated that redfish ate over 200,000 tonnes of shrimp a year, but that only 55,000 tonnes of shrimp remained. Wasn’t this imbalance noticed?
The decline in shrimp stocks was blamed on climate change, which causes warmer waters, for instance. This is certainly a factor to consider, but why was the redfish population allowed to explode to such proportions? Why wasn’t a decision made sooner to avoid such a devastating effect on the biomass and the shrimp industry?