Madam Chair, the Atlantic fisheries fund is a real success story. It was so successful that we have actually expanded it to include Quebec and B.C. as well. This is a fund that is available for fishers and producers to innovate their businesses in order to scale up or do value-added. We know there is a huge market for our seafood products around the world. We want to make sure we are doing everything to we can to support the industry as we grow our fish and seafood sector.
COVID-19 took its toll on the industry, but I am very proud of the investments we made there as well with the seafood stabilization fund. We were able to provide money to processors who were able to better provide freezers and cold storage, which was a gap we had seen. We wanted to make sure that they had the ability to invest in PPE and all of the measures they needed in order to keep their workers safe during the pandemic.
We are going to continue to work with industry to make sure we are supporting them, so that our wonderful fish and seafood products can go around the world.