Yes. Thank you.
Back in 1992, the impacts on the community were huge. The impacts were big for all communities.
As I told you earlier, the community of Fogo Island had 5,000 people. There were 1,000 kids in school in 1987 when I graduated. My wife's a teacher. Now we're at about a little over 2,000 people in the community, and we're at fewer than 200 kids. We lost generations of harvesters. We lost culture. These are things that you'll never get back in Newfoundland.
Like I said, the lowly cod asked so little but gave so much. It had such a large impact on Newfoundland and Labrador.
Since then, we've gone through the pain. We were lucky that we had shellfish to fill in the gap. Now the shellfish are starting to decline again. Over the years, people had very few fish to catch, and they took just the small amounts of fish that they had to catch. Now we're transitioning to new gear types like longline with the help of the Atlantic fisheries fund. Those are sustainable ways to go forward. You can catch better quality fish like that.
Those are a couple of examples of how the cod has impacted and how we've moved forward.