Thank you. I appreciate that perspective.
We're going to quotas. As we've seen many of the fisheries go to quotas, there is a cynicism about windfalls happening in certain quarters and insiders who benefit.
In response to Mr. Kamp's questions about setting up a system for managing trading, there was a comment about using the trawl system as a model that the industry itself used. But I have a concern that has been raised by someone who was on one of the committees you mentioned—one of the committees involved in developing this plan—who makes this remark:
The radical new fisheries management plan has reduced the trading value of quotas for halibut and sablefish by more than $100 million. Other quotas, like rockfish, have increased substantially. Some members of the committee were conducting insider trading throughout the process, with knowledge that was not available to the general fishing public.
He goes on to say this:
With this inside information they were able to develop a quota trading program and bring it on stream the day the new groundfish integration plan was announced. No other trading business was allowed access to this information, so they had a quantum leap on all their competitors. They projected business would be in the tens of millions of dollars.
When DFO was involved and the industry came up with a plan, was there concern that information was actually being channelled to people on the inside to create a trading system that is going to create a windfall for certain elements at the expense of others who might be competitors?