Fisheries committee  I have participated in the crab stock peer review in each of the last 10 years. Each year, and particularly in the last four years, biologists were recommending a 10% cut in the TAC in order to maintain a small crab stock for future years. The snow crab stock follows a cycle. After a certain number of years, the stock declines and then it increases continuously.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chairman, Mr. Blais, good morning. My name is Marc Diotte and I am here representing the Association des morutiers traditionnels de la Gaspésie. I would like to begin by thanking the members of the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans of the House of Commons for coming to the region to give us an opportunity to voice our opinion on the snow crab fishery in zone 12—that is, in the southern Gulf of St.