Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Gibbons, thank you for being here. I'd like to take this opportunity to raise the issue of climate change. Climate change is a serious issue, but everybody can see that it's going to give you a lot more work to do. In fact, it's been going on for some time. I sympathize with you, because it can't be easy.
When we talk about climate change, we have to look at who is affected and how we can help them. Predictability and financial compensation are two things that will really have to be addressed in the very near future, because climate change is no longer a problem for five or ten years from now; we're knee-deep in it.
Even though it was determined that mackerel stocks had been declining for 10 years, I know of a fisher who allowed his son to buy a boat and gear for the pelagic fishery in 2020. If he had any doubt that the fishery would be closed, he wouldn't have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in a mackerel licence.
Is predictability really on your radar right now? Will it be soon?