Let me use the example of the shrimp fishery, which starts on April 1. When sectors are ready to go out to sea, they can go. The same principle could be applied to other species, by opening the fishing season on April 1 and, as soon as a port has no more ice, let the fishers go out so that they can catch as much as possible before the whales arrive, which would limit their interaction with them.
I would like to take this opportunity to say that New Brunswick fishers are working extremely hard to develop ropeless fishing gear. So we are all making progress, although it's going to take time. Until we can have equipment specific to the fishery, however, we should let the fishers go fishing while limiting their interaction with the whales.