I believe you were around when the so-called Mifflin plan was initiated in 1996-97. There has been a fair amount of reallocation of the resource and a reduction of the actual number of fishermen.
I remember quite well, Mr. Chair, when we had our first west coast report in 1998-99. We were talking to fishermen individually on whose lives the so-called Mifflin plan had really had a devastating effect. My concern has always been the enhanced concentration of a public resource. We know that Jimmy Pattison's companies have a fair concentration of it now. My concern, of course--and this is just a comment---is that the transferability of those quotas will enhance the concentration even more, meaning small rural coastal communities having access to fish will have their decisions made by somebody else elsewhere. I just express that as a concern.