Number one, LFA 34 does not have a voice. I represent thirty-some fishermen, and everybody is in the same boat. We need something that's unanimous and has the voice of every fisherman in LFA 34 who would be involved in the decision-making process.
This is all new. It hasn't been escalated yet, but I would assume if we had the right person at the helm, promoting the industry and coming out with recommendations to sustain the industry, it would be beneficial.
We don't look at this body or agency making any recommendations of how we should fish and how many traps we should fish. That would be LFA 34's job. But we meet with LFA 34 and there are avenues that need to be taken, like looking at what is the pre-assessment of MFC, what is the quality, what are the markets out there. The LFA management board could tell this agency to do this work for us. And again, this agency would represent every licence holder, so the trust would be there.
Hopefully you will be interested in this so-called proposal, so we can come up with some more.... This is done by a bunch of uneducated fishermen and senators who draw the stuff as rough as they can—future senators.