They need an alternative.
We've been hearing about minimum quotas for a long time. Equipping a boat takes time and kicking off a fishing season alone is expensive. When you have to equip yourself for a new fishery, it's even more costly and complicated. Clearly, not just anyone in the business can get into redfish harvesting, given the quotas imposed on shrimpers in Quebec. That's dreaming in Technicolour.
What can you tell them about the future, in terms of ensuring predictability, to keep the economy going for the villages on the Gaspé Peninsula, for example? What can you tell them to give them hope?