One thing that's very distinctive is that on the north side of Prince Edward Island there's no other fishery across from us that affects us, whereas if you fish in the strait, you have New Brunswick across the strait, and Nova Scotia is on the opposite side of the strait in this area. It definitely plays a part in it.
I'm not going to try to explain why there are differences, but one thing I have to say is when you go to a dealer to buy equipment for your boat, they don't ask you which LFA you fish in and then give you a reduction because you get fewer lobsters. It's the same price for everything, wherever you go. The costs are the same to go fishing in all three LFAs, and that's the hard part.
In an area where there's a decline in the fishery, it may not even have anything to do with the fishermen themselves; it may have something to do with the fact that there are concerns with pollution, for example, out of Charlottetown and Summerside. It could have something to do with the bridge. There could be a number of reasons. But in the final analysis, every fisherman has the same costs to go to sea.