If I understand correctly, it's part of how the catch is recorded in regard to the boat itself--the people who put, more or less, labourers on the boat versus being a shareholder. That's how they get around it; that's how they do it. I wanted to know if you were aware of it, because I wasn't aware of that until yesterday.
I find it amazing that you go out on the water and fish, it's all fishing. You fish or you seal and you can't use it as income, especially when it's 75% of your income. Yesterday we were dealing with about 20%, but at 75% it really blows it out of the water for me.
In regard to the hakapik, I haven't run into a sealer yet who's against using a hakapik as a safety tool as much as part of the work. So I don't think you should be listening to anybody else, except for the people who are around the ice, when it comes to that.
With the protestors, again I have a big problem. It's the only industry that I know of where people can go in and interfere with your job, and not in any way, shape, or form be penalized for it, unless there were some small situations earlier this year.
I don't know if anybody mentioned this morning--I'm trying to make some notes--the hail system. Yesterday we heard in St. Anthony a fair bit of concern with the hailing system. I want to know, because there was some concern up there on Holy Thursday. Then things were shut down Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday. There was no way to phone in, because the staff from DFO weren't there. Would you give us some idea of your experience with the hailing system, anybody who would like to answer?