i would like to turn it over now to peter daly or mike nerny. ey attended with our own president willie adams, the west cruise -- cruise in the west conference in seattle november 7 and 8. mike, can you tell us about the conference? thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is michael nerny, marketing manager in the maritime division. for a change, i'm not going to talk about retail fish sales. [laughter] i have a new topic today. last week, as elaine said along with byron, retz and peter daly, i went to seattle, washington to attend the annual fall meeting of cruise the west, a marketing association of 10 west coast cruise ports from california, oregon, washington, british columbia and hawaii. the president of cruise the west is chris chase from the port of los angeles and i am the secretary-treasure. the association works together to promote our region to cruiselines every year in march at the sea trade cruise global conference in florida. the main purpose of last week's meeting was to plan for sea trade in 2018. items such as the bu