I'd like to address some of that. Gary might want to add to it.
Let's look at southwest Nova Scotia and let's look at the trap fishery, not the one you see on the Discovery Channel off the coast of Alaska but the one off Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, P.E.I., and, for that matter, Newfoundland. Let's stick with what people in this room probably know, which is southwest Nova Scotia, LFA 33, 34, and 35, up the Bay of Fundy.
With the boats, because of regulations that meant we couldn't go longer, we had to make two choices, to go wider and/or higher. In those particular fisheries, we went wider, which created a more stable boat--maybe a stiffer boat, not as soft, but still a more stable boat.
We didn't go high, which creates instability in more of the boats more dramatically, because of the operation of the fishery. When it first started going wide, the fisherman still had to grab a buoy out of the water every 10 or 15 minutes. He didn't want to be way up there and have to throw an anchor at it and grab the buoy like they do off the coast of Alaska. That's not the way they operate.
So for a lot of the fisheries, the width has actually improved the condition of the boat and the room in which they have to operate. There are some benefits to some of the regulations that saw the boat evolve.
In Newfoundland it's created more of a problem. I don't know the statistics there specifically, but I would dare say that if we see the overall statistics--you may have seen the statistics on some of those capsized--it comes down in certain areas and goes up in other areas where they were forced to go higher. Newfoundland is well known to have gotten the boats to go much higher, but maybe as a general statistic, the numbers are still similar or down. That may be because of where they took place.
For example, I don't know of any of the wider boats that have ever capsized--ever. I can't even come up with one. I'd love to be able to search my memory and come up with one, but I can't find one.
So it may be that the statistics are skewed because of that particular situation.