That's perfect. Thank you for that.
Minister, some colleagues around the table were talking about more science, more data and making decisions based on science and data. I want to talk about the striped bass a little bit.
First of all, thank you for the decision you made earlier this year that gaspereau fishers can retain more striped bass in their nets. I think everybody around this table will agree that striped bass are a problem. They're a problem for salmon, they're a problem for lobster and they're a problem for many other species they eat.
What frustrated me, Minister, is that, in the last couple of years, we've had a lot of scientists here at our committee, and we've also had some officials and, back the day, some those people were saying that striped bass are not eating salmon or lobster. I can guarantee you that, back then, I was questioning whether it was true or not. We were seeing photos on social media, for example, of striped bass that had lobster in them when they were gutted. I was questioning if it was true or false, but I've seen with my own eyes the past two summers that it's real. I have a photo here of my brother on a Restigouche fishing trip this summer. This is probably 45 kilometres up the river. We caught three striped bass in one morning. They're in our rivers; they're everywhere. They're badly hurting some of the other resources that fishers depend on.
Thank you for that decision. Can we push it a little bit further? The responsibility of DFO, of course, is protecting and managing resources, but when a species is above what it's supposed to be, don't we have a responsibility to make sure it doesn't hurt other species, Minister?