Each licence holder has a choice as to whether they want to belong to the spawn-on-kelp organization, which is a commercial organization of licence holders. Most spawn-on-kelp licence holders do belong to that organization. That's the organization the department interacts with. When we want to get advice, for example, from the spawn-on-kelp industry, we interact with the spawn-on-kelp organization.
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