Through the use of adaptive management, you can have a long-term permit or agreement to allow the management, over a long-term period.... As you say, we need both short- and long-term strategies. You can have a plan to monitor the species on a regular basis and adapt to the information that comes in. Peter gave you the example of changing seismic lines. We can incorporate, in the use of a permit, continuously improving methods. We have long-term permits for all of our facilities already, and as new technologies become available we can start implementing them.
On June 4th, 2009. See this statement in context.