I have spoken at length to my association and to the lobster committee. I'm quite, shall we say, “green” in my group, but I, for one, feel quite strongly that we could lower our number of traps. We fish 300 traps. We could lower our trap limit. It's very unpopular with the fishermen.
I've talked to fishermen. We have been to four lobster meetings, and this is the fourth one in a week. The American fishermen fish 800 traps all year long. They say that they couldn't get by with one less. Grand Manan fishes 375 pretty nearly all year. They couldn't get by with one less. Up towards Cape Breton, there's a guy who fishes 62 days with 250 traps; he catches more than any of them, and he says he can get by with 225. I think we should lower it, but other fishermen don't agree.
You get all these views out there, and most people feel.... Anywhere they've lowered trap limits around the world, they have not lowered their catch. That would cut your carbon footprint. It would cut your whale entanglement. It cuts your expense. There are so many things, so many positives, but my fishermen don't buy it. So how do we make a decision?