Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for joining us in the second half here.
Twenty-five years ago, Canada was the top fish and seafood producer in the world. Now we rank number eight. The goal under the blue economy is to double our seafood production and to get up to being the number three producer in the world by 2040. Only 50% of the seafood produced in the world is wild-sourced.
I'd like to ask Mr. Hutchings this: Is it possible for us to achieve any of the goals under the blue economy and grow our wild production with the pinniped predation that we have right now?