Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is, indeed, a very dark day for the fishery. This department and six ministers, in eight years, have mismanaged this fishery almost like no other. In 2000, you did a complete shutdown, as you're doing today, of the elver fishery because of poaching, because of illegal harvesting. The industry said how to fix it, and this department did nothing since then—absolutely nothing—to fix it.
Help me understand the rationale of a ministerial decision, and presumably a recommendation from the department to supports it, that thinks that taking the people who abide by the law off the river deters thousands of illegal, international, criminally financed harvesters who are poaching and destroying the fishery.
How does taking legal harvesters off the river help stop the poaching?