I'd like to address the issue. You asked the question about the cost to build a boat, that the fisherman needs to give him the length he needs or the width he needs, and whether it would exceed what he's building today, for example.
Whenever I've built boats in the past and had to manipulate them by cutting things off and adding things on to meet DFO regulations, to meet requirements for licensing, it has cost way more money than if someone had just come and told me what they wanted for a boat. If I could build the boat you wanted, I could build it cheaper if I didn't have to look at the rules and regulations on how I had to cut and destroy your boat in some form to do that.
Secondly, I'll use the same phrase I've used in the past, and I'll just speak for the lobster industry. If it's 49' 11", there's no secret to it, 49' 11" is the magical answer. Unfortunately, some of the people who are happy with the 49' 11", with just a shelf on the stern extension, are not the same people who have to leave their home port on June 1 and put 25 tonnes of ice in the hold, 10,000 pounds of bait down in this tank, and go off 300 miles, like they did in June this year. They all survived hurricane-force winds, but I'm telling you there were a lot of them saying their Hail Marys the three days they had to put up with that.
I'll say the same thing now that I've always said. Those who want the 49' 11" shelf or slanted stern, who fish in the bay and go fishing until June and go golfing the rest of the summer, no one's asking you to put a tank on. If you have no need for it, you have no need for it. The guy whose lifestyle is set up because he's just bought a $500,000 swordfish licence needs to go fishing for the summer months. He needs to take 25 tonnes of ice; he needs the 10,000 pounds of bait and he needs his five feet for buoyancy and for safety. Why should a handful of people have the say that because they don't want the tank, they think DFO should make it illegal, which they have had so far?