I could add to that and say that the major issue here in the southern gulf is the grey seal herd, not the harp seal we hear about in terms of the harvest. It's the grey seal herd. Their primary rookery is Sable Island. This year alone there will be 58,000 pups born on Sable Island. We have no access to that. The issue for us is that we need a cull as well as a commercial hunt in terms of the grey seal herd.
There was a study done around 2001 or 2002 in Prince Edward Island alone by the provincial government that showed seals at that time caused over $6 million worth of damage to fishermen here—lobster traps and other gear—over the course of the fishing season.That's certainly expanded since then. I think the grey seal herd has expanded sevenfold since the late 1970s in the southern gulf.