The simplest thing is landings information, and it's hard to get. There are reasons. Remember I told you there was non-compliance in the fishery? We heard during the consultations that lots of lobsters are sold under the table on the black market, so they're not recorded. Once monitoring takes place at dockside, it could change what actually happens now. This is what we heard at the consultations.
In assessing a stock, the first thing you need to know is how much you're removing from it. There are biological references, such as when lobsters are mature. You can take a lobster and a scientist can study it and determine whether that lobster is mature or not. That's measurable. What we don't know are the simplest things, such as landings, and the size of the lobsters being landed. Those things aren't monitored because there's no quota. If there were a quota it would demand all this information.