Thank you.
I had two separate incidents over the summer that I wanted to highlight, and perhaps this would be for Mr. Davis again.
For the safety of the people involved, I won't confirm the location, but I did have a fisher who brought me out to a wharf and very clearly pointed out to me people who were illegally fishing. His frustration was that despite many reports, and ongoing reporting, nothing was being done. Right in front of fishers, there was illegal fishing happening repeatedly with a lack of enforcement, and that just continued on.
That is versus a very different scenario in which an indigenous fisher, because of a clerical error in paperwork, had his entire $20,000 worth of catch seized, auctioned off, despite this clerical error being resolved quite quickly.
It seems like there are two different extremes here where we have an indigenous fisher being very harshly penalized for a clerical error, versus the ongoing illegal fishing that we're often seeing in front of us at wharfs.
Can you speak to that contrast we're seeing? How can we best move forward to ensure there are accountability mechanisms in place to avoid illegal fishing?