Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There is a division among the commercial fishermen on Great Slave Lake, and it centres around mostly the size of the operation between the "A" licences and the "B" licences. The department did a study last year, Mr. Speaker, and the breakeven point for some of those B fishermen would have been around $1.20 a pound. FFMC over the last few years have not been paying, or the fishermen have not been receiving, more than 50 or 55 cents a pound. It is a question of logistics. Simply, a B fisherman with a skidoo and a sleigh cannot haul enough fish off that lake to make a living. The B fishermen account for less than 10 per cent of the quota on Great Slave Lake. So there are some A fishermen who are making money and a lot of B fishermen who are not making a lot of money. They can lose up to $4000 in a winter.

Mr. Speaker, there has been discussion between the Department of Economic Development and Tourism and Renewable Resources that these people who are not catching a lot of fish and are doing it in some ways in a traditional style should be moved over to Renewable Resources, and that discussion is still continuing.

We realize that we have a problem. Part of it can be addressed by some of us moving over to Renewable Resources. Part of it can be addressed if we are able to find markets for those fish that are presently culled or not purchased by FFMC - and there is a considerable amount of waste in that regard. So we are investigating that one. What we would like to see to end the problems is that the two groups of fishermen get together; that is, the fishermen's federation and the other group, and resolve their differences. That would be the best thing, in my opinion.