The answer to your question, since you've asked it, is yes. When you sign on to a NAFO document providing a very specific enforcement measure or mechanism or process, that's the process you follow. As a ratifier of that NAFO convention, you don't then come out and say, “Well, we're not going to accept it. We're now applying a separate body of law called the UNFA law, which is outside of the NAFO revised convention.” That's the response we got, so why would we do that? Why would you want to sign on to something like that?
On October 22nd, 2009. See this statement in context.