I'll just touch briefly on it, and anyone else can jump in.
That's one of the big concerns, and that actually comes right back to Mr. Allen's question also on the lobster. When we were in the middle of the 2007 consultations, the thought of the Marine Stewardship Council was that food traceability was a large issue. It was starting to loom. We didn't know how it was going to play out, how it was going to end. For certain species they were applying for certification.
This was one of the big worries about not having landing data and a baseline. If you have a baseline or you can develop ways to have a baseline and say that for anything below this baseline we do this, and for anything above this baseline we can increase a little here, then you're halfway there. But without any documented information....
I am sure that a fisherman knows every pound of shrimp or every pound of crab or lobster he catches, and he knows he wants the value for that pound. It's not that the information is not there. It has not been documented under a program. The information's out there. It's just a matter, I think, of getting it onto the table. Therein lies the problem with certifications and where we're going on food traceability. As of right now, as a council, we only have to do the report and present it to the minister. We don't follow up. But because we're fishermen, we're always in tune with what's happening in the industry. We're all multi-species fishermen, and whether your council is made up to do herring or to do crab, you still have guys on it that are in the mix.
There are always discussions about what's going to happen here. That is one of the big concerns. Because of the food traceability in the future, we're concerned that the lobster fishery in Atlantic Canada could get shut out of some main markets. We may not even be able to control that unless some proactive stuff is done.