Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to Consul General Clark for once again joining our committee to clarify and answer these questions.
Mr. Clark, my hometown is Richmond, British Columbia, and the cornerstone of this city is the fishing industry in Steveston. We have the largest commercial fishing harbour in Canada, and it offloads approximately 100 million pounds of seafood and fish annually. The harbour recently established another new business offloading another four million pounds of crab, Dungeness crab, and a new processing plant has been set up there.
I'm curious about our seafood and fish trade on the eastern seaboard there. Maybe you can talk a bit about that industry, that sector, and the impacts that it may have on trade with the States that you recognized earlier today and that amounted to $325 billion.