I have a quick question, and I'm just ballparking here; I don't have any evidence of this. Is it not possible that a foreign company could Canadian-flag their vessel, have it registered in Canada with a Canadian flag but owned by someone else, and then fish Canadian stock within Canadian waters, then transit that fish back to, say, Estonia, Russia, or Taiwan, wherever? This happened in the north when a Norwegian company, through BFC, arranged a Canadianization of a vessel, put a Canadian flag on it, but the quota was caught in Canadian waters and sent back to Greenland for processing.
Is it not possible under these NAFO regulations that Spain, Portugal, or any other country could do the same?