Fisheries committee  I'll try to be brief. From 1997 to 2001, when we were acting under a five-year plan, industry contributed more than $2 million to the DFO to undertake science. We found, though, that after a few years, science was acting on its own and coming up with schemes and systems telling us what the results would be.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Chairman Rodney and members of the committee. I'll introduce myself. My name is Doug Cameron, and for the last 14 years I've been the executive director of the licensed snow crab fishers of the Province of Prince Edward Island. I only learned of the meeting on Tuesday, via a colleague, and after a few phone calls I managed to wiggle myself onto this committee.