I will answer in French.
We put a plan in place very early because of the crises that our fishing sector was going through. We know that the option changes over time and that it has evolved into its present form. It has changed recently. It started with the licence buyout just because we knew that the fishing effort needed to be reduced. To start with, we went with a percentage, which we tried to reach by measures like reducing the number of traps per fisherman, the maximum size of the traps, and we started to use a standard trap. Then, as to the buyout option, we started using our funds to buy out businesses 100%. That has changed over the years. We now get the fishermen to participate. It is not just the government that invests, there is also an investment from the fishing industry. This means that the fishermen have a stake in protecting their resource and in investing in the future.
We know that that the fishing industry has to be restructured everywhere in the Gulf and in the Atlantic. If we want to face the future, and the declines, we must accept that it is too big; there are too many players for the amount of the resource. There is no long-term stability in the fishing industry. The entire industry has to be able to make it through lean years. For that to happen, the fishery has to be viable, and to be able to prepare for the worst. If there is a huge decrease in the price of lobster this year, say if the price fell to $2 per pound all over the Atlantic, there will be an economic crisis that will be out of our control. We are trying to avoid that in the long term, but the problem is that it takes an enormous investment from government and from the fishermen to restructure the fishing fleet. It is big; this is no small structure that we are trying to reduce. There are places where it is completely different. There are different methods of reducing the fishing effort. We are reducing the effort ourselves, but, in other places, different plans are needed to meet the same goal.
Second, buying licences has evolved. In the future, it is possible that two businesses may buy licences together in order to reduce fishing effort. We always come back to the same thing: in the present economic crisis, it is not easy for fishermen to make investments. It is not clear where the money will come from.