Mr. Speaker, if the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans has an announcement about the seals he should be making that announcement right here in the House in front of all parliamentarians. After announcing the dragging and fishing moratorium in zone 4VN off Cape Breton we will now have disastrous effects on our cod stocks.
Therefore, the people of northeast and southeast Newfoundland and Labrador would like to know if the minister will allow them to be fishing when it comes to April 1?