With the buddy-up system now, if two licence holders get together they're allowed to have 565 traps. We strongly believe that's a good system. The fear we have is that if our trap limit went down to 300 and the buddy-up system or partnership came in and allowed a full 600 traps--the way some of them are heading--it wouldn't be a fair fishery for the independents who only had 300 traps. They would be forced to buy another licence. The boats are big enough to handle this, so we're in favour of buddying up with a total of 565 traps, not a full set of traps.
On April 1st, 2009. See this statement in context.