Fisheries committee  Our coastal communities and rural communities in many regions are heavily dependent on the fisheries, you can understand—and certainly the processing facilities are. Any time we lose those two components—processing and, obviously, the harvesting sector with it—it has huge implications for the economy of those regions.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Lorraine. Our all-party committee was created to present a unified position on shrimp quota allocations. At this point I'll conclude by discussing our recommendations. Recommendation one: the committee is calling on the federal government to eliminate LIFO and establish a new sharing arrangement between the inshore and offshore through a process that is consistent with those applied in other fisheries.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all, thank you for the opportunity to present to the standing committee here this afternoon. My name is Keith Hutchings. I am the chair of the all-party committee, and Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture for Newfoundland and Labrador. My fellow committee members are Mr.