Mr. Speaker, the moneys expended in terms of the retirement packages in the groundfishery were spent for good cause, to help in terms of the social welfare of the community and to retire licences.
In fact there was too much capacity. We recognized that and that capacity has been brought down from 18,000 licence holders in 1992 to 11,000 today.
In terms of the shell fishery, we are managing it in ways of good management plans, dockside monitoring, enforcement officers, and the list is too long for me to continue with.