Thank you very much for that question. It's a good question.
It's difficult, because we have these polarized views about any kind of harvest going forward or a reduction in population to benefit fisheries and questioning whether that's good for the ecosystem or not.
For our fisheries here, if you watch the video footage for the herring fishery over the last two months, you would have seen herring sets that are full of sea lions and seals going into nets and eating and disrupting the fishery. If you set a lone gillnet for a herring fishery, you were cleaned out. You had to set multiple nets in order to have one that is able to fish.
You have a population that is out of control from a fisheries point of view—maybe not from an ecosystem point of view, but from a fisheries point of view—so you need to do some kind of management here. If the aquaculture sector is licensed to kill when their livelihood is at stake, I think we need to be looking at something like that to allow harvesters to protect their livelihood. If they're not going to allow a harvest of a population of seals and sea lions, then at least allow us to protect our livelihoods.
Thank you.