As far as the value-added process goes, the way the commercial fishery is allocated within the three gear sectors, it's done on value of the fish and it's done with a sockeye equivalence, which can be a little bit complicated, but if you just stick with the value of the fish, how it's allocated within the groups, it will cover the concern here.
Trollers, by the very nature of the fishery, handle each fish individually. The fish is killed, it's bled, it's gutted, and it's individually handled. In some cases it's taken--maybe about half the trollers have freezers at sea and they freeze it and they put out a beautiful product. We get top dollar for that product, and it seems like an excellent piece of business to do.
The net fleets, the seiners, and the gillnetters sell their fish in the raw. They're not bled, and it's just a full package. They're actually processed in the plants. For our fish, in some cases, the only thing they do in the frozen case is maybe put them in a plastic bag and sell them to the retail customer.
What happens the following year is this. You've produced a nice piece of cash from your business, but in the following year allocation is done on value. So the trollers are punished because they've added extra value on the product at ex-vessel. The net fleets get more fish out of the process because they've produced a lower-quality product and they get rewarded by getting more fish given to them to try to balance the earnings. Clearly this is a real concern, because we should be trying to get as much value as we can out of this resource, and each sector should be encouraged to add value.
What we are proposing to change this process is to not use value but to use either pieces or weight to allocate the product. If you use pieces or weight, then every single vessel, every single fisherman, has a vested interest in increasing the value of that fish.
So I hope that answers that one question, and Jim, perhaps you can do Cultus Lake.