Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
It's interesting hearing the testimonies today regarding the role of DFO. I looked up quickly what is on DFO's website. One of the opening lines is, “We support economic growth in the marine and fisheries sectors, and innovation in areas such as aquaculture and biotechnology.”
When you look up the definition of “biotechnology” you see that “Biotechnology is the exploitation of biological processes for industrial and other purposes, especially the genetic manipulation of microorganisms for the production of antibiotics, hormones, etc.”
This to me sounds like the work that Mr. Engeset is talking about and could probably be part of DFO's work in promoting fisheries.
Mr. Engeset, would you comment briefly on that?
Possibly, Mr. Chiasson, you could comment after that.