Resource Committee — Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture to the Estimates Committee. I am going to begin with the people behind me: Brett Wareham, who is responsible in the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture for fishery development and infrastructure; Sonia Glover-Sullivan is a public relations director; Mr. John Bullen, is responsible for finance over in Fisheries and Aquaculture but works in the Department of Natural Resources; Jerry Ward, ADM responsible for Aquaculture; and sitting next to me is Leslie Dean, who is the Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture. I am not going to use up a lot of time in my opening remarks this morning, because as I said, this is my fifth time, as Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, making a presentation to the Estimates Committee. Most people here are quite familiar with the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture and its responsibilities. I am just going to touch on a couple of issues. The role of the department, as everybody knows, is as follows: the responsibility for promoting ongoing developing in the harvesting, processing, and marketing sectors of the fishing industry and for articulating policies relative to the management of fisheries resources, comprehensive programs relative to technical innovations, resource assessment, resource diversification, aquaculture development, productivity and quality enhancement. I guess if I were to say one thing it is this. The topic that has been most on all our minds in the last five years is diversification and the quality enhancement program. Over the years in the fishing industry in Newfoundland and Labrador there was very little emphasis put on the need to development a top quality product. The fish seemed to be just a fish, something that you take out of the ocean, no looking to where it was going, the end user, or the deriving of maximum price. It is hard to explain, but nevertheless that was certainly right throughout the industry from the harvesting and the proces