Thank you, Chair.
What's been interesting for this committee is that we hear a lot of lecturing. We hear a lot of bravado statements, but I'm more interested in substantive answers on what steps have to be taken, first of all, to encourage fishers to actually utilize the resource that's allowed to be taken, but that hasn't been taken for some time, which is several hundred thousand animals. I believe you can harvest between 400,000 and 500,000 animals.
We hear a lot of generalized statements, but those haven't worked because this problem has occurred over the past 20 years or so. We have to get to the root of the problem of what has to be done to encourage fishers to go out and harvest the seal population they're allowed to, and then begin working from there.
What action would government have to take that would actually get the harvesters on the sea harvesting those seals they're allowed to?
I'll go to you, Mr. Wiseman, on this.