Fisheries committee  They've clearly told us that if we don't have that money, there will be no stock assessment, there will be no reports, there will be no updating of the stock assessment model, and it will lead to a decrease in quotas. So there is no way for an industry that has contributed millions over the last ten years for management and stock assessment—unless I went back to my members and said, “By the way, boys, everybody has to buck up”, even though 40 of them didn't even go fishing because the market has been destroyed by an IUU fishery, which is a global problem.

Fisheries committee  We are Pacific urchin harvesters. It's a red sea urchin fishery. We were only able to fish 50% of our market. We collect our fees through a licence fee by regulation. They have to have a validation logbook to go fishing, which the association gives out, and we collect a $5,500 fee, for a total budget of $600,000.

Fisheries committee  Thank you. So what we were told was that the effects of no funding.... And I'm not saying no funding. We still gave $400,000 this year from a collapsing fishery, due to international markets. If there were no surveys, there would be no updating on the new stock assessment model, there would be a decrease in confidence, and there will be a decrease in quotas.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, committee members. We've talked about test fisheries. We've talked about stock assessment. The other aspects of fisheries management include—For example, in our fishery we've collected lots and lots of data with stock assessments, but that data needs to be analysed and reported on.