Madam Speaker, it is relevant to raise the issue of the Icelandic cod fishery and to ask ourselves these questions. If other jurisdictions manage their cod fishery on a sustainable basis as the Icelandic community seems to be able to do it, then it is legitimate to ask ourselves why can we not achieve the same. I do not know the answer but I think that in the course of my presentation I may come across some partial answers at least.
This leads me to my second point which has to do with the predictions.This debate takes place in an understandable political milieu, in an understandable political atmosphere, but the predictions that have been made have been with us for decades actually. The history of human exploitation of the fishery over the decades and over the centuries is not a very happy one.