That's an interesting question.
There's no way to actually be able to target at twenty years. If you asked anyone around this table thirty years ago, with the exception of Kevin, if crab would be your primary species, they would have said, “You're crazy; it's a nuisance fish”--and likewise with shrimp. Those species were not really.... Yes, they were marketed and they were harvested, but not to any great degree. It's hard to target that thirty years down the road.
With the regional side, it could work, in some sense. Up until now there's been a lot of friction against having areas of harbour authorities. Maybe there's a way to actually have them come together at one table for discussion in areas, to try to discuss how to better approach this. But everyone is still going to try to protect their community, their area, or whatever.
There are certain things you do together. In our area, there are three communities that had operating wharves but no longer have them. That has happened, and those fish harvesters have moved to either Bauline or Witless Bay or Bay Bulls to operate their businesses because those other three are no longer there. We're doing it regionally, not by design but out of necessity, and I think that will continue.
You're going to have an awful hard sell to go into any area and say this wharf is going to close. There was something on the news last night about an arena somewhere that is going to be closed up, and the council is going against it, but everyone in the community jumped forward and kept it. The same thing will happen with that wharf.
There are ways we can work together as individual harbour authorities to try to get a volunteer group to take care of a bigger area. I'm on town council and have been for ten years. I'm the mayor of Bay Bulls. You look at a larger area, and the things I do on the town council, the harbour authority--and all of us here are the same way, for your own community--it's awfully hard to do that work. We go down and we put fenders back on the wharf. If the floating docks have been moved or something, we go down and do this. This work is not hired out; we give thousands of hours every year to that facility. To do that for a larger area is going to be pretty hard. You're not going to have the benefit of saving money, because there's staff and everything else, so it could actually have the opposite effect.