That community traditionally was reliant on groundfish. Unfortunately, that area of the Scotian Shelf, 4VsW, is really not doing well in terms of groundfish. The cod quota in that area, when we put the moratoria on 15 years ago, was around 20,000 tonnes of spawning stock biomass. It's about 2,000 tonnes today, notwithstanding no fishing. So the stocks they were relying on are not recovering. There were arrangements made with other companies to move in, but again, that hasn't panned out.
The minister has the authority and the responsibility under the Fisheries Act, obviously, to allocate fish and to provide licences. That is a tool that can be used, but he doesn't have the authority to specify exact landing spots, like Canso, Burgeo, Ramea, Lunenberg, or any other place. He can't do that. He is in the situation now where there are simply not a lot of the species that were traditionally supporting that town available for allocation. It's a real tough issue for both the minister and, in particular, for the people of towns such as Canso.