I want to tell you a story about my family. My father was a cod fisherman. He observed the ocean his whole life, and he was very familiar with seals and their interactions with fish stocks in the Saint Lawrence River. That was his science, as it is still today the science of other people that we know well, some of whom testified before the committee.
I was out fishing with my father one day when the whole controversy that led to the end of the seal hunt was going on. He made an offhand remark about how we should be taking advantage of the fact that we could still eat cod because now that there was going to be no more seal hunt the cod stocks would start to drop and there would be no more cod in about 10 years' time.
A few years later, I was dating a scuba diver. When he was doing some diving in Les Escoumins, he noticed that there were a lot of eviscerated cod on the seabed whose viscera had disappeared. He also saw seals attacking cod in the ocean, so for me, this all makes sense.
What do you think about that? I think that we agree on certain things, namely the fact that we need to manage the pinniped population in a fair and balanced way and that managing it does not mean a massive slaughter. What is your opinion on the data that has been collected on the ground? Is your foundation collecting data on the ground from people who live along the river?