When it comes to the biggest impediment to growth, it appears that people are always blaming, as Ginny alluded to earlier, the harvesters and overfishing, but that's certainly not the case. We have the right environment. We have everything we need naturally. What people are not seeing is that the overpopulation of pinnipeds is eating away at our livelihood and eating away at our fish stocks.
For 2J harvesters in Labrador, one of the biggest impediments to the growth of their fish stocks and the struggles they're having is pinnipeds. That's where they spend most of their year until they.... You know, some come up in our bays, but that's where the biggest population of our herd of seals is for the bulk of the year.
If we want fish stocks to grow and rebound, we have to address this overpopulation.