I can't give you a specific number. What I can tell you is that to the extent that we are a re-marketer of seafood products to jurisdictions around the world, and in particular Europe, which as I said in my earlier testimony consumes about a third of our exports as a company, the more returns we get from the marketplace the more we can invest in our business back here.
What has saved the industry in Atlantic Canada is effectively that which many folks would say has been the destruction of the industry. The industry 30 years ago employed a huge number of people on a seasonal basis, folks making $10,000 or $12,000 a year who would then have their income supplemented by entry into the UI system. Our company employs about 1,700 people, I would say almost all full time. I can't tell you what our average salary would be, but I'm guessing it's more than $50,000.
This is what we need to do with the entire economy. If you look at new businesses that are starting in Atlantic Canada, they are not businesses designed to do business in Nova Scotia. They're businesses that, if they're going to be successful, are designed to do business around the world.
We can't grow our economy without that, so we need the regulatory mechanisms that allow us to trade with the world. It takes time, but that's what we need to do to reinvent the economy. We can't go backwards; we need to go forward.