Is it accurate to say that those key elements and goals for the negotiations were outlined in a document put together at the 2005 St. John's conference--sort of that basis for NAFO reform--and in the amendment negotiations you were seeking to implement those things that the Government of Canada had already signed off on, a previous government but the Government of Canada nonetheless?
Let me turn to article VI, section 10, which has come up for debate a number of times. I'll read it into the record:
The Commission may adopt measures on matters set out in paragraphs 8 and 9 concerning an area under national jurisdiction of a Contracting Party, provided that the coastal State in question so requests and the measure receives its affirmative vote.
Is this a novel clause, or do we find it in other RFMOs around the globe?