Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I believe that that would be a question suitable for the Minister

of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. But I could speculate that the share that the Northwest Territories has had of the quota in the Atlantic Ocean, has been very minimal. In fact, it has been reduced in the past year.

However, in discussions that I have had with the Minister of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, he has indicated to me that there is room for fishermen in the Northwest Territories. And that we should be able to get involved in the areas that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has been managing on the Atlantic Ocean, especially in the waters around Baffin and Greenland.

In the meeting I attended with department officials, I had asked the Minister whether a workshop with the department of fisheries officials and the Nunavut wildlife management board -- who are probably a large part of our stakeholders in the Northwest Territories -- should be getting together in the near future. That was left with the Nunavut wildlife management board -- who, at the time, were just getting started with the staff -- to try to come up with a time line whereby they would be able to get together with the officials of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.