I will tell you that we have an all-party committee. We have been very successful in making recommendations in the past without dissenting reports. We usually are like-minded when we put our report together, and one of the challenges we will face here is that whatever recommendation--I don't want to prejudge the recommendations of the committee--we put forth errs on the side of conservation and safety. After saying that, the other challenge we are faced with is if you have a certain amount of quota, and most of the fishery is either an IQ or ITQ system today with so much tack divided up among the fishermen, so if you have 40,000 pounds of groundfish and 275 trapped lobster licence, what difference is it what length your boat is when you fish that quota? That becomes the difficulty.
The old rules were put in place for reasons, for conservation reasons mainly. They don't necessarily apply, and that's what we've been trying to deal with and to educate the public, and to educate ourselves, quite frankly.
With that comment, I want to say thank you very much for appearing today. It has been very informative and helpful.
Just before I adjourn the meeting, those who have any further comments that they'd like to give to the committee in writing are welcome to send them forward. If there are any fishermen groups or any other groups that have an interest, please send them forward. We're happy to hear from you.
The meeting is adjourned.