First of all, on the boat, as the season starts, it's very high. As I said, 50% I think is landed in the first 15 days, so you'll see boatloads of 3,000 and 5,000 pounds coming in. Sometimes the boats have been out for too long and the lobsters are not held properly, not handled properly. That's one issue.
You have to remember it's a competitive fishery. Fishermen view it that if they don't catch the lobster, somebody else will, so they're going to do their best to catch as many lobsters in a short period of time as they can. That's the way the fishery operates.
Can we do more on quality with the fishermen? Some fishermen do a very good job; some don't.
Holding.... For lobsters, generally, that are held in crates, in cars just in the water, for any length of time, that's not a good system for holding them.
I'm often asked, “Why don't the buyers have a two-price system or a three-price system?” We would be willing to talk to the harvesters. We need to have more organization in the industry. For example, you could do an auction, an online auction. That's one proposal that's been put forward.
There are others you could entertain, but the way our competitive buying system works is if a fisherman comes in with a lower-grade lobster, usually there's always a buyer who will buy it, and he will pay the same price as the guy who gets the good-quality lobster. Sometimes you'll find a mixture. And if you say “I don't like that lobster, it's not good quality”, then you may lose that boat to somebody else.
There are incentives in our competitive buying system that we have right now and in our competitive fishery that don't always work for quality. We have started talks with our lobster industry round table as to what we might do, what alternative there is to the current setting of shore price--one shore price--what we could do. Those are talks at this point.