Your testimony this afternoon contradicts other legal advice that the committee has received, but thank you. We appreciate it.
The other point would be that unlike a trade dispute, a biological dispute or a renewable resource dispute is dependent on fecundity and recruitment on an annual basis, on a seasonal basis. Disputes often wreak havoc with that fecundity and recruitment. Specifically, what I'm saying is that if you have a dispute on a fisheries resource, you had better get it resolved, at a bare minimum, within the same calendar year, preferably within weeks of the objection being lodged, because if you overfish, it's really tough to get that ground back. If you overfish, you deplete the stocks.
Realistically, being lawyers you'd understand. In the ultimate conclusion of this, in all the procedures, can the objection procedure be resolved in a binding way within days, within weeks, within months, or within years of the objection being raised if an objecting country files all of the options available to them within the NAFO objection procedure?