Okay. I'll summarize. I apologize.
At any rate, we have embarked on a rationalization program to eliminate groundfish and other licences, but we're having limited success. A federal contribution of $3 million toward the retirement of these licences, and $7.5 million toward the retirement of tuna licences, would have a significant positive impact on these fisheries. In terms of order of magnitude, if we could retire 400 to 500 groundfish licences out of 872, and 180 out of 363 tuna licences, this would have a huge impact.
We feel that this is an investment in our fishery. These retirement programs have taken place in areas such as tobacco and hog production in the agricultural sector. This would be a significant positive investment in the future, and we would get away from the crisis management that we've pretty well operated our fishery with in the last number of years.