Fisheries committee  I agree.

Fisheries committee  I agree.

Fisheries committee  There's always potential for that, especially in the Pacific region. That's one of the concerns that I think is important to bring out here. The Pacific region seems to operate on its own, in absentia of this national mandate to support fishermen and to support individual harvesters.

Fisheries committee  Good afternoon, committee members and Chair. Thanks for having us to speak about this issue today. My name is Andrew Olson, and I am the executive director of the Native Fishing Association. We're an aboriginal financial institution based in West Vancouver that serves aboriginal indigenous fishers all over B.C. through loans, licences and other business assistance, as we can.