V-notching is voluntary. The fisheries department could never prove whether you're V-notching. If you return that lobster to the water, you know she is going to spawn. That mandatorily shows it's going to work. Even in Maine, V-notching is not mandatory, so how do you really know how many are being V-notched? I V-notch some; most people at home just don't V-notch.
Our fishery on Deer Island has a higher percentage of jumbo lobster than most places in our district; therefore, people at home want to catch those jumbos, and they get bigger. My brother-in-law, the brother of Maureen, who is sitting right here, catches a much higher percentage of jumbo lobsters than I do. I don't know why, but he does. People like him don't want to lose the jumbo fishery; I'll say that. To make it a fishery for the long term, if we're catching so many at a good carapace size, I think we need all that bigger stock to spawn,.