I haven't had such discussions recently.
My sense from the scientific community is that there was a great deal of frustration with the ineffectiveness of NAFO and other RFMOs, such as ICAP, for example. People felt it was more worthwhile to invest their time in coastal state management, with the 200-mile limit, because that's the way you can produce results, and there was a disillusionment or frustration with the way NAFO has worked in the past.
That's the sense I have gotten almost uniformly from those involved.