Fisheries committee  Thank you. I'm glad to have this opportunity. In regard to what Earle's talking about, in our small communities when we started fishing at our age, it didn't cost anything, any more than to gear up, you know what I'm saying, the boat and a bit of gear. But then, during the moratorium years, we created this thing called core.

Fisheries committee  Without the buddy-up, Mr. Kamp, I wouldn't be here today as a fisherman. When I started fishing with my father, he could share the catch with me because two of us could catch more than one. But with an IQ on crab, a crew member was an unknown species...in my fleet of less than 40 feet.

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity. I want to talk about snow crab. When we got into the crab fishery, 15 or 16 years ago, it was after the moratorium when they took away our cod fishery, which was a deepwater fishery for us. Over the years we've been successful in lobbying to get into the bays for small boats under 40 feet.