There are a couple of issues here. One is that the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency puts a tremendous amount of money into research and development. About eight years ago we developed a new program, the Atlantic Innovation Fund, which made an unprecedented amount of R and D money available. To do that, we had to take a particular approach. We had to target commercializable projects. We wanted products that could be developed and sold, products that would allow people to be employed in manufacturing.
This was the approach we took with respect to research and development. In the course of doing this, our ability to continue to do everything we'd always done before was limited. We adopted the Atlantic Innovation Fund model and things like CCFI. We were carrying on the work of matching the fisheries research with the fisheries industry. It was getting done. They had found each other.
There were also programs available, either through provincial governments or from other federal departments, that had a mandate for fisheries development. The one thing missing with CCFI was that specific matchmaking exercise—bringing those who want to do projects to those having the capability to do them. But after 20 years of this sort of interchange, we feel that this should be able to happen much better now that everybody knows one another and we have been working together for quite a long while.