There may be a bit of talking at cross-purposes about the monitors. I can be corrected on this if I'm wrong, but the monitors don't really act as overall enforcement agents. They primarily function during the authorized openings. They are more landing monitors, because the openings—and I was corrected on this just this morning when we were doing a bit of preparation—don't say they can catch so many fish. They are openings that say there will be an opening from this hour to this hour, starting this day and continuing to this day.
The monitors aren't armed monitors. They're not peace officers. They're nothing like that. They're not expected to be out on the water patrolling for out-of-bounds fishing. Their role is really more in assisting DFO and creating parallel databases for the fish that are being landed during the authorized fishery.
It would be kind of surprising if the monitors were in fact having a role at out-of-bounds times, because that's not really their job. That's not what DFO expects them to do and that's not what they're paid to do. Chances are that they're at home in bed if something like that's going on.
The idea of the Cheam monitor is not to create a parallel police force or a parallel enforcement branch to DFO. It's more to assist in the scientific program that's ongoing to find out, look, if we have these openings this long with this kind of equipment, how many fish are being brought in? What is the catch per unit effort? It's that sort of role rather than being focused on whether some members decide to disobey the rules and fish at some other time, without the sanction of the council and without the sanction of DFO, and then going out and catching those individuals.
That's why I think we're talking a little bit at cross-purposes, because that's not really the role of the Cheam monitors as DFO or Cheam envisages them. The more important message that Cheam is going to send is that it's the message that's being sent to the community.
I'll tell you, they get a lot of political heat from the community. These folks are political actors just as you are, because they're saying to members that they're not guaranteeing to those members that they're going to be sending legal counsel to defend them if the play outside the rules.