During the study by this committee of the lobster crisis in 2020, we heard testimony from Dr. Dadswell, who is the DFO scientist who put in place all of the LFAs and all of the science for it and then went on to Acadia University. He testified that if you wipe out the breeding stock in the summer in St. Marys Bay and Browns Bank, you're going to wipe out all lobster in southwest Nova Scotia and New England, yet DFO has just given another 7,200 tonnes with no science to Clearwater to fish, and they fish right at the corner of 34; they don't fish that whole area. Could it be that six years, coincidentally, is the time it takes for lobster to grow to the size to be caught, and that is why this is having an impact now?
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