This is interesting. I hope people hear us on that.
However, with offshore fishing techniques having contributed to altering the resource, and the resource having recovered when we stopped fishing in this way, a major fear has taken hold in the world of Quebec fishers and shrimpers.
We can see how complex the situation is for biodiversity, which is in free fall, particularly for shrimp, of which redfish is the main predator. For at least five years, shrimpers have been sounding the alarm that shrimp biomass is declining, and that redfish must be fished at all costs. They've been calling for this fishery for several years, probably even when you were in office, but it's only now that we're announcing the opening of this fishery and returning the majority of the market to the offshore sector.
Although redfish quotas are not at their historic 78% level, and some work has already been done to reduce them, are they still a priority, in your opinion?
What do you think about respecting the historical quotas, given the critical situation of biodiversity? Could it be that, 30 years on, they're no longer as relevant and need to be revisited? Do you think we should continue to operate exactly as before?