Thank you, Madam Chair.
Mr. Cyr, thank you for being with us today.
I'm a guy from New Brunswick. We probably greet each other at times from our respective shores.
You spoke about the opening and closing of fishing seasons, but also about an ecosystem that's changing a lot. There are many more predators in our regions, such as the seal, that I see at home and that I did not see before, the striped bass and so on. You even talked about great white sharks, which are becoming more and more common. I hope I won't be one of their prey when I swim near the coast, at home.
Joking aside, let's now talk about mackerel fishing. You talked about it a lot. You talked about food, but also about bait. It was the government that decided to close mackerel fishing in the 2000s. Do you think that at that time, it was a good decision to allow the stock to rebuild?