The associations that have joined together in this alliance have mostly concentrated on the lobster industry. There are implications for other industries, and other industries might join or prepare some form of proposal in light of, or inspired by, this. But these associations are mostly the ones that have been in difficulty around lobster. I think that's quite clear in the document.
The way this would work is difficult to say. There are different ways that programs are already working in Quebec, for example. We have a licence retirement program. We do other things also to offset the effort on the resource and have a snow crab quota at this time. A lot of these programs are already set and in place. What's missing is the necessary capital for them to have the necessary impact.
What is the impact necessary? That was your other question. In the document, you'll see that we're talking about 25% to 35% of our fleets. That is where the price tag mentioned earlier comes along. What we need to do at some point, if we do have a fund of capital available, is to go back to our membership and analyze this group by group, community by community, and then ask what exactly is the reduction in people needed in your area so that those who remain will be able to take the pie and divide it up with enough revenue left for you—and with everything else remaining equal, and that's another challenge—so you will be able to have decent earnings from this fishery? That is the exercise we're willing to do.
Those who would remain, actually, would be willing to invest some of what is needed to be able to access this seed capital. They could borrow some funding for 25 to 30 years and pay it off every year. There are mechanisms, and quite an elaborate program in Quebec by O'Neil Cloutier and the guys, that show some very practical ways of how to do this.