Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here today. I have so many questions. I was having a hard time deciding which ones would be most important for today, to be honest.
I'd like to ask a few more of you, Mr. Dakins.
One of the biggest things that we're talking about is the lack of the information that we need so that we can ensure that we're all talking about the same things, so that we have the education so that misinformation can be countered. I'm just trying to get clarification.
This is, I think, our fifth meeting around pinnipeds, and I'm starting to notice some information that's not jibing. I just want to get some clarification around the diet of seals. I keep hearing about the amount of food that's being eaten by seals in Norway. I'm using that as a comparison with the inaccuracies of what we are seeing around what seals are eating along Canadian coasts. I'm also learning that there are differences in the environments that would result in those different eating habits. Can you speak to that a little so that we can understand?
If we're saying that we need to reconcile the differences.... Perhaps I'm wrong, but there seems to be an assumption that our numbers for what seals are eating along the coast of Newfoundland, for example, would be the same as for what's being eaten along the coast of Norway. Some of the information I'm getting now is showing that those are not necessarily two comparable numbers to be looking at. Perhaps you could clarify for me the information that you were talking about specifically around that, please.