In terms of our proposal, basing it on the 2008 EI program, the reason for this is that landings are so low in certain areas that people may not be eligible, based on 2009 landings.
We did a little calculation at the beginning of the season when our lobster prices were $3.00 and $3.50. It would require a captain and a crew member to be able to draw fishers' EI from July until November to land 11,400 pounds of lobster. There are a number of areas where that is simply impossible for fishermen to land this year. And when you consider the price, that one-sixteenth or whatever it is that EI uses for its calculations, it's simply impossible. They'll have no income at all over the course of the winter. That's why we're insisting it go back to 2008 levels.