The reason I ask that question is I remember Pierre Trudeau was once asked a complicated question on the east coast fishery, and he said the problem with fish is that they swim...as you were talking about, back and forth without the passports.
It appears that what the negotiations have been doing, and I'm of course not privy to them, is they're really arguing about who has the right to fish when, where, how, under what jurisdiction, and what provisions can be made to object to this and that. But it doesn't appear, at least in my thinking, that the fish stocks themselves are at discussion here.
When you were negotiating, Mr. Applebaum, these concerns, was the health of the fish stocks a paramount decision-maker, so that no matter what we agreed to, nationally or internationally, the health of the stocks overruled every other aspect before that?