Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for attending, especially after the technical challenges last time. We appreciate your coming back, and we appreciate MP Barron's invitation to try to make sure that you got to a point to present on this important issue.
I represent South Shore, Nova Scotia, where some of your members have facilities: Mersey Seafoods and Clearwater.
There's been a lot of controversy in the discussions about this, and we're still, I believe, waiting for the minister to set the TAC. We haven't actually seen the TAC yet, but I'd like to start by asking for a little info on the idea of the historical allocation. There's been controversy there, with people saying that it depends on which part of history you look at for the offshore fleet having the percentages you spoke of, versus different allocations.
Can you provide the committee just a little history, from your members' perspective, about how they got that percentage and why it's important?