Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to our witnesses, who are here both in person and virtually today.
My first question is for Ms. Collier. It's so nice to see you here. It was nice to meet you at the Fisheries for Communities event a while ago now.
In your opening statement, you mentioned that every year it's getting harder to be a fish harvester, in particular in the last four to five years. You were talking about barriers like you've never seen before. I'm wondering if you could expand a little bit on the particular point that you made around seeing lease prices driven up so high that there is a financial incentive for owners to lease instead of fish.