Throughout Asia, even recently, we've tried to advance trade and open up new customers. We are presently in the world's most opportune time for selling omega-3s. The collapse of the fisheries in South America and the Chilean and Peruvian fisheries have created a global shortage. We've been inundated with requests about seal oil omega-3 going back to March.
The problem is that, in a lot of these countries, the decision-makers believe that harp seals are endangered. That's a real message that animal rights groups and other detractors have pushed forward. We need to be able to counter that. The only way we can counter it is with science. Do the gap analysis.
I don't understand. DFO could undertake that immediately. Talk to the Norwegians. Reconcile the differences in our understanding. That will provide the basis with which we will understand the problem. Then we'll understand the urgency to address that problem.
If the rest of the world wants to buy Canadian seafood, they're going to have to come to a reality that we have to do something with this apex predator, not only the harp seal but the grey seal in eastern, western and northern waters.