Mr. Jean-Paul Deveau:

It is very important not to have competitive harvesting, because the resource is a finite quantity. If there is competitive harvesting the seaweed will be over-harvested and essentially in the future there will not be enough to sustain the industries that have been created.

The Deputy raised two other points. First, he raised the issue of product comparisons by companies in the marketplace. Companies in the marketplace are always looking for points of differentiation of their products versus the competitors. That is a fact of life. If we made a product that was black and our competitor made one that was white, we would say the black product was better and the competitor would say the white product was better.