And it's fine from my perspective too. If you have someone in a 34' 11" boat who wants to move into a 65-footer, then I think he should be allowed to do that, the same as if he wants to move from a 65-footer to a 100-footer. Leave it to me to make that decision. But because you're going from a 65-footer to a 100-footer, don't come out and say you need another million pounds of fish to take care of that 100-footer.
Do you see what'll happen? If we move the regulation from 65 feet to 80 feet or 100 feet, then the cost of operation becomes higher and higher. And the higher the cost of operation, the more you want more fish, and in order to get more fish, who knows what's going to happen then. I don't think because I move from a 65-footer to a 100-footer I should have any more fish to catch than the fellow who's staying in the 65-footer.
Do you understand what I'm saying? It's when you're talking about IQs and stuff like this. If I go from 65 feet to 100 feet, then I'm going to probably say, “Well, I need another 500,000 pounds of fish or a million pounds of fish, because now my boat is much more expensive to operate and I cannot operate on the quota I have.”
The safety aspect of it is one concern, and the part about being hungry for more fish and the over-capacity.... We're talking now about being over capacity when we're talking about the fleet we're already in and needing a lot of fish to operate it and keep things going. I'm afraid if we move bigger, then the appetite will become stronger. From the few fishermen that I've talked to, I hear that this is the worrisome part of it.