I haven't done any assessment for stability. We go with the fishery and what we're allowed to get. You get cut in quotas. You get a quota, like a crab quota. This year I got somewhere around one-third of the quota I had three years ago.
We were into the cod fishery. In 1992 we lost all that. We have none of that left. For the turbot fishery, as you know, the stocks have been going down and are being cut. So when I get into other fisheries, like mackerel seining and the shrimp industry, I basically do it out of necessity.
I try to do what I can to survive. It's a matter of survival. It's probably not a matter of choice for me to take my boat, which was never built for shrimp harvesting, and go offshore 150 to 200 miles and drag shrimp. Quite frankly, she was never built for it. It's necessity. I suppose I'm breaking the rules and should be taken and chucked away somewhere, but I'm doing it out of necessity to survive in the industry. Governments and DFO haven't provided me with the haddock and stocks for the boat I've got, to keep it to survive. I have to turn somewhere else. I have to turn to other species, and that's where I run into trouble.