Mr. Chairman, the hon. member talked about those who fish for need and those who fish for greed.
When I was growing up, a fisherman was somebody who went out in the boat, caught fish, sold the fish and gained maximum profit, such as it was in those days, 2ยข a pound perhaps. The fisherman got the maximum benefit from catching the resource.
Today every fisherman has to be licensed. Every person with a licence is certainly not a fisherman. Therein lies the major problem. The process has been so manipulated that large corporations, people with money, are buying up licences. They have other people front for them in the boat who obtain the minuscule part of the share. They are really destroying the whole process.
The beneficiaries of catching a resource should be the primary people who are involved, the fishermen themselves. The profits should not be spent in Florida.
Is that situation the same in his area? What does the member think about it? What can we do to change it?