I hope not, but really, what can we do about it? There's nothing we can do, as fishermen. If we held off and didn't fish for a month, maybe the lobsters would migrate by us and we'd miss out. We're in a predicament. It's like a grain farmer who didn't plant his grain until July because the market was down. You know, you have to plant it when the time's right. It's the same with the lobster. We have to catch that lobster when it's there and when the quality is right for us to catch it, and work from there. That's the best we can do.
I think that with the government's support we could spread our catch out a little more in the spring, to make it a longer season and not have that big spike that comes the last weeks of May and the first two weeks in June.