Pretty much, yes. Because DFO has a regulation in place concerning the cubic number, and that is, of course, that the boat cannot be any longer than 64' 11". So what they do, even with new construction and refit, is they take their length--64' 11"--and they are assigned the cubic number from DFO. It may be 11,000; it may be 13,000. They are limited in their length, and they go to 64' 11".
Now, they look at the width that would give them something reasonably stable. In the meantime, they keep in mind that they want a certain size of fish hold so that when they go 150 to 200 miles offshore, if they can bring back 60,000 pounds of shrimp, they'd rather do that than bring back 40,000 pounds in the one trip. Because DFO has assigned them a cubic number of 11,000 or 13,000, or whatever it might be, they know the length. Keeping in mind, again, the breadth that they're going to need, if it's 20 feet, well then, with the balance of the equation they know what the height of the fish hold is going to be.
There was one case in the boatyard where the boat was 60 feet long. He wanted to increase his carrying capacity, so he wanted 10 feet put in the midship. What we had to do, because of DFO's regulations, was cut five feet off the front of the boat so we could put that in the midship, which gave him a better carrying capacity.
I think I heard Mr. Manning mention he'd heard stupid things before he went to Ottawa, and he's heard them since he went to Ottawa, and I'm sure he's going to hear them again.
Since we're on that, I'd like to mention the 34' 11" as well. DFO has a regulation in place where they cannot go any longer than 34' 11". However, they also have a regulation in place where they can upgrade to 39' 11". They can buy a boat that's already 39' 11", and they can upgrade to that. However, they cannot build a boat to upgrade to 39' 11". And they cannot buy a boat at 39' 11" if she was modified.
Again, the regulations in place are just mind boggling.