There are two other points that you raised in your presentation, and I think they are troubling because they seem to be consistent in terms of what we're hearing about the department. We had them in the other day, and we were talking about information, and clearly on another matter they're making decisions on information that doesn't always lead to the results they intended.
This is not exactly the same as what you are talking about, but with reference to DFO cancelling the Nuu-chah-nulth spawn-on-kelp fishery, when they were asked for information they were not able to provide any stock assessment data or scientific projections. It sounds like what's before us now is another case of DFO not having adequate information to assess the impact of giving these additional licences--or they wilfully are disregarding the information.