Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my statement this morning is dealing with fisheries, specifically inland lakes. Our elders are starting to recognize efficiencies in fisheries that come from smaller, inland lakes.

In the past, Mr. Speaker, when we had a trapping society before the arrival of the snowmobiles, dog teams were utilized to a great extent. Families would have anywhere between 14 and 20 dogs that needed to be fed. People used the inland lakes for fish products quite a bit.

Now that we do not have the dogs to be fed, we are starting to see fish that are overpopulating these lakes and reducing the food limit. Through global warming, the level of ice and snow is affecting the water tables and naturally occurring mercury may be a factor here as well.

I want to know what the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development is doing to monitor fish in the inland lakes near our communities. If they are monitoring, what have they discovered and what will they do about what they discovered? I will have questions for the appropriate Minister during question period. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.