Fisheries committee  Mr. Lanteigne said that.

Fisheries committee  We would need a much more significant amount than we have now and can hope for in the future, with only 10% of the allocation. I would say that something in the range of a million pounds or two million pounds would be.... Again, it depends on a lot of factors. The cost of operations and the price that we get—

Fisheries committee  The last two years have been extremely difficult because of the reduced quotas, the lower biomass, the much lower catch rates and the market difficulties. The market for cold-water shrimp has not been as good since the pandemic as it has been for snow crab and lobster, for example, and the cost of fuel has hurt us very much.

Fisheries committee  I will give you the example of our community, the Rivière-au-Renard—Fox River—in Gaspé. Rivière-au-Renard is a community of about 4,000 people. If you include the two processing plants, the harvesters themselves—the captains and their crews—plus the services like the welding shops and the electronics shops, just in Rivière-au-Renard—a community of 4,000 people—we are talking between 400 and 425 jobs that would disappear if there was no shrimp fishing and processing anymore.

Fisheries committee  Everyone agrees that the three factors are predation by redfish, higher water temperature and lower oxygen content. People don't agree on which one is the most important factor, but if you're asking me what I think personally, I think that predation by redfish is the most important factor.

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much, everyone, for allowing us to present our point of view on this issue. I will need to switch to French. In allocating redfish quotas, Fisheries and Oceans Canada has chosen to rely on the historical shares principle, whereas, based on the criteria of the department's emerging fisheries policy, redfish may, and clearly should be, considered an emerging fishery.