As long as you don't have the stated aim to disrupt the hunt and you're willing to abide by the conditions that are explained to you in the licence conditions, you will be issued a permit. The permit contains conditions that you must provide information to the department as to with whom you are planning on going to [Inaudible--Editor], how you plan to get there, and when and where you plan to go.
If only a small number of vessels are fishing on any one day or in one area, we will restrict the numbers to keep them manageable. The same situation would apply as I explained about Hay Island, so if we only have two vessels fishing in a certain area, sometimes multiple groups may be interested in going to that area. We usually explain to all the interested participants that, for example, we're only going to allow four of them to be in that area at one time, so they can agree among themselves to send one representative from each group, or in the absence of an agreement, we'll just arbitrarily decide that you someone can go out in the morning and somebody else in the afternoon. Usually if there's more interest than there is realistic opportunity to observe without being too disruptive, the groups will all agree among themselves to select one individual.