I have had discussions with processors where they talk about the need to slow down the product moving into their plants to give them time. There are some products that are, right now, in high demand. We have some inventory buildup of products that aren't.
That's the situation that has to be corrected. I know the processors on the island and in New Brunswick are having discussions with fishermen. At least I've been told that they have been. I think one of the difficulties is that when the season is under way, it's very difficult to talk to harvesters, because it's a competitive fishery. They're going out every day they can possibly fish. It's hard to even talk to them about, look, our inventory's coming in too fast, or we're getting overloaded and we're afraid the price is going to drop, maybe we should slow things down a little bit. We can't have those kinds of discussions.
We did have one. Ian Marshall from DFO was at the meeting in early December down here because we were afraid of just that. The landings were high, and they were coming in fast, and the price was low, and we worried about a crash. We did, very quickly, pull together some of the major buyers and some of the LFA 34 fishermen, and we talked about it. We said let's have a conference call in another week or week and a half, if we see things getting worse, because we may have to take some action. That's the kind of thing, I think, that we're into now and could very well be into this spring.
How do you get the industry together and say let's make a change, while we're in the season? It's very difficult to do.