Thank you.
I think you said you're waiting until the end of March. Well, we're a little bit beyond that. That was over a month ago.
In the recent stock assessment, it was revealed that once again last year the sentinel fishery for northern cod showed no improvement. You rely on data from the sentinel fishery. According to an order paper question that I received an answer to, the data from the stewardship fishery wasn't even analyzed for four years, and yet, you took this sentinel data.
I wonder if your department has ever questioned why the same fisherman in the sentinel fishery goes out and gets 20 fish out of a net on Monday and then goes out on Tuesday and gets 300 fish out of the same net.
Have you ever questioned the validity of the data you've received, for which you pay $704,000 a year, that shuts down the cod fishery and denies opportunity to fish harvesters?
Have you questioned the validity of the sentinel northern cod fishery?