The last two years have been extremely difficult because of the reduced quotas, the lower biomass, the much lower catch rates and the market difficulties. The market for cold-water shrimp has not been as good since the pandemic as it has been for snow crab and lobster, for example, and the cost of fuel has hurt us very much.
I'll let Mr. Lanteigne speak for New Brunswick, but it's fair to say that most of our harvesters in the last two years have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's been extremely difficult.
Again, we knew that 2024 would be even more difficult, but before the decision of the minister, we had some hope that in the long term, significant allocation of redfish would allow us to pull our heads out of the water. Excuse the bad play on words, but the decision made to allocate most of the redfish quota to offshore companies—because we're not talking about harvesters here; we're talking about companies—has more or less killed our future.