Thank for your question. I am very glad that you asked this, because I said earlier that I was primarily a groundfish fisherman, though with the last two consecutive moratoria, we were allowed temporarily to catch shrimp.
When we fish for shrimp, we cannot fish for cod. For several years, the problem with the cod fishery in the southern gulf has been that it opens at the beginning of July. So we cannot fish for cod.
Secondly, most of the time, even though this is probably not in the notes, fishers with mobile gear catch almost 100 per cent of their quota, almost all the time. The remainder used fixed gear, and there is a problem with respect to fishing seasons and fixed gear in Quebec. For several years now, I believe that Quebec and other provinces have been putting forward some demands on this issue. We have to wait for the lobster fishery in the Atlantic to be over before the cod fishery can open. But fixed gear boats and other small inshore boats have to do without the cod for that reason, when the cod does not come close to shore.
When I said that we did not get some three quarters of the captures back, that is in relation to this sort of problem, not because there was no cod.