Well, I've asked the department to take another look at why those things that are most crucial—rebuilding plans, rebuilding the stocks and issues around actually knowing what are the natural and the fishing mortality of stocks—are not targets for the department, but things like increasing aquaculture are.
I'd like to go on to enforcement.
In my riding, a couple of people in the lobster brokerage industry were charged by DFO and convicted of selling undersized lobster. A very small fine was issued by the court. They sold about a million dollars' worth of lobster and got a fine of about $50,000. The next day after the charge, they started to sell illegal lobster again. DFO came in and again charged them. They've been charged again recently.
Part of the problem for the province is that the charges are to the individuals and not to the companies. Will DFO start looking at charging the companies where this is happening?
