I couldn't agree more. However, we have a serious problem here. We do have a seriously diminished biomass from where it was.
The other issue you raise was to treat the southern gulf the same as the northern gulf. The science we've seen, the catch records we've seen, tell us the catch is diminishing more quickly in the southern gulf than in the northern gulf. If you treat the two areas exactly the same, then you're going to run the risk of completely decimating that stock in the southern gulf.
I'm not saying every fishing zone is correct. I'm not saying DFO has never made a mistake in the past or won't in the future or scientific assessments can't be off, but that's what we have to work with. I think you're running the risk, quite honestly, of totally destroying the southern gulf biomass.