Fisheries committee  Thank you.

Fisheries committee  Madame Desbiens, I'm going to make a comment on this subject that relates to the question Mr. Cormier asked earlier. We ourselves suggested to the department that it set up a work table to study all the questions Mr. Cormier raised earlier, but we're still waiting for an answer.

Fisheries committee  The answer is yes. As soon as we know what the tonnage is going to be, we can make that calculation.

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. The crabbers themselves will tell you that the shrimpers have boats that are better equipped to do that kind of work. The answer to your question is yes. It's entirely possible to do this type of work.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  It will be very easy to answer your question. I will lay out two situations. In the first situation, say you want to get funding. You go to your financial institution and ask for $100,000 or $200,000 to run your fishing business. They ask you whether you have an allocation. You

Fisheries committee  Okay.

Fisheries committee  Yes. You said a quick question and a quick reply.

Fisheries committee  Go ahead, Mr. Element.

Fisheries committee  As you know, they are already trawler boats, so it is basically a switch in the trawling equipment itself. It's a question of a new net, and of course it does mean some changes on deck. Right now most of them have a separator on board to remove smaller fish from shrimp. This has

Fisheries committee  It is a big cost, and it's been said by the managers of the AFF fund that we could access that fund for that purpose, so at least there's that possible help from that program at DFO. Are there sufficient funds for everybody? That's another part of the equation, but we've been tol

Fisheries committee  There are minimal options there. You'll see two things, basically. One is boats remaining in the boatyard and not going on the water. That's for the guys who can at least wait maybe a year or so. The other case is a “for sale” affair, basically. That's what it is. There's no wa

Fisheries committee  It's like if you're playing cards and you just have one or two left in your hand. You don't have that many choices. In the only options that we had, the first one was shrimp, which is basically gone, and the second one is redfish. In doing that, the option that we're trying to

Fisheries committee  I guess we forgot to pay the electricity bill here recently. There's no more money in the bank, so....

Fisheries committee  Unfortunately, I missed the question because I just rejoined you.