Certainly it is in December. We land a lot of lobster in a very short period of time. It's not always handled properly on the boats. That could be improved. You have warm-weather fisheries taking place in the gulf, where the lobster is stressed, so handling is very important. Again, there's the holding capacity in the southern gulf, so that it's held properly.
Another issue, I'm told, is where the fishermen are fishing seven days a week and the plants are processing. They don't even get to close down on Sunday. They don't get to catch up. Sometimes they have to force product through into popsicle packs, something that they would rather not do. But it's coming in so fast, that's all they can do with it.
There is one other thing I would mention as a role for the government. It's not short term, but we pay, I think, an 8% tariff on live lobster going to the European Union, and that's not 8% on the wharf price. That's 8% where it's landed, with shipping and all that in there. We pay about a 20% tariff on our processed product, which is formidable when you're trying to competitively market a product in Europe against the shrimp and a lot of other products from around the world.
That's a big market, the European Union, so if you want to do something for lobster, the Canadian government could negotiate with the EU. Let's go after tariff reductions.