Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have just a couple of things.
First, we mentioned there is a small sentinel or stewardship fishery on the go. I've heard from some fishermen who are taking part in that. I think for some of them the catch limit is 2,000 pounds each week for a number of weeks, to probably 12,000 or 13,000 pounds of fish. However, I have fishermen—and they are still using the gillnets, as my colleague referenced—telling me that the fish are so big this year that they are actually tearing up the nets. It wasn't that way last year or the year before. That was on the southern shore, up towards Calvert and the Ferryland area, which I am sure you'd be familiar with. At the same time, even where I live, in Conception Bay, people who go out in the recreational fishery are catching fish that are of a size they haven't seen for years. We've heard reports of people getting 60-odd-pound cod fish or 70-odd-pound cod fish.
What do you make of the increase in that this year, compared to other years? We didn't hear those stories in past years, especially in the recreational fishery.