Thank you.
If you have those numbers, it would be great if you could email them to the clerk. We can table them so we can make that part of our report. That would be appreciated.
As a follow-up to you, but slightly different, you referenced that the feeding ground used to be Brier Island. They've now moved into the gulf, and that's changed all of the dynamics that you outlined. A former DFO scientist lives in my riding and was a whale scientist. He's written quite a bit in The Chronicle Herald about the issue, particularly what happened in the two years when, I believe, we had 12 right whales die a few years ago.
I talked to him personally about it. He said that part of their new route was following food, as they do, but actually up in the Labrador Straits. He believed that a number of them were dying because they were following food when there was ice there, and they weren't able to surface. Their carcasses would drift down into the Gulf of St. Lawrence once the ice let them go, and they may or may not have been hit by a ship.
He claimed to have done more necropsies than anybody on them, and he could tell that a lot of them had been dead for a long time. That makes you wonder—