Finance committee  [Technical difficulty—Editor] the government participated in the buyout.

Finance committee  I guess the answer to your question is that basically, as far as the transfer goes, that still can happen in any fishery. But on the rationalization idea of it, I'll give you an example. Ian spoke about groundfish. We have over 800 groundfish licences. This year you had to regist

International Trade committee  They go to the processing sector mainly, or if the company is processing tails, raw tails, we use some of that.

International Trade committee  We put a lot of sustainability measures in place over the years with mandatory escape mechanisms. We've increased carapace size. Stocks have been increasing steadily over the last 10 to 15 years. Last year, I think, was a record; the lobster catch in Prince Edward Island was 30 m

International Trade committee  It was 30 million.

International Trade committee  How much are we exporting?

International Trade committee  It's still around the 70% to 80% range.

International Trade committee  That's right, yes.

International Trade committee  As Ian mentioned in earlier, the Fishermen's Association have taken the initiative of our own branding. This summer, for instance, I was in Calgary at the stampede. We're going back out there again next week, and we're trying to expand those partners all over Canada.