Thank you, Madam Chair. I just only got six minutes or less than six minutes, so I have to talk about the commercial fishery. And I guess more so about, you know, production costs. And this comes up year after year, and it's been ongoing for -- for a long time. And that's to do with equipment.
Like, equipment is dated. You know, they're running -- like, you know, we expect to do winter fisheries, and we're running with, you know, bombardiers that are probably in the '60s. That's how old they are. Trying to find parts for them is another thing.
I was helping, you know, one of the fishers there source parts and -- for his bug here this winter, and it -- and it's pretty -- it is pretty difficult.
So what is the department, I guess, doing to look at the equipment and how to -- is there a -- is there any move to look at replacement type equipment for -- you know, for winter fisheries or summer fisheries? The boats are kind of older as well, and they just been -- it's just been the same old thing year after year. I think it's -- you know, we're in -- you know, it's 2022. So there's got to be some better equipment out there, and I just want to know what the department is doing to assist the fishers in sourcing newer equipment and efficient equipment and energy efficient equipment. Thank you.