The first one is the second largest program in the world. It is the north Pacific groundfish observer program, run by the federal American government. The second program, which is interdependent with the first one, is the Alaska shellfish onboard observer program. Under both these programs, the services to the fishing industry are provided by the same four or five competing companies, so it's about the same. The two programs are tied by the fact that five competing companies provide service to both of them, in the same region. We're talking about maybe 600 observers, 40,000 sea dates per year, so about twice the size of the old program in Canada. It's a very big program.
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