Thank you, Ms. Barron.
Yes, from my personal perspective and experience on this, at the marina that we are located at in Ladysmith, the moorage fees have gone up 24% over the past three years. That's a lot for those fees.
In order to have a boat in a marina, you must have insurance. As I was saying earlier, with older boats, it's more difficult to get insurance. You need surveys. You need an in-water survey and you need an out-of-water survey. You need those to get insurance. For the older boats, it's getting more difficult to get insurance on these vessels.
If there's no insurance, you cannot moor. It's a catch-22 situation when it comes to that.
I don't know how we could do this, because a lot of those marinas are privately owned, but I think that if we could put a moratorium on fees in the marinas until we could get the derelict and abandoned vessel issue mitigated, it would help the situation quite a bit. I think it would be a start, if people aren't looking to solve the next problem of not being able to afford moorage and moving their vessels out on their anchors.
Thank you, Ms. Barron.