I've been at DFO for a couple of years. The policy, as far as I'm concerned...crab in Newfoundland is a four-month fishery. My season is four months. A 12-month regulation cannot apply to something that only has a four-month duration.
My view is that we change the wording. Keep the transfer system in place, but with maybe one change per season, one change per 12 months, and then I can change my boat back in 6 months or 8 months. But this 12-month rule and sticking to the 12 months simply doesn't work in a Newfoundland fishery.
They've talked about combining licences and rationalization. If fishermen like me want to buy up IQs, we must have the flexibility to pick out the best vessel and fish that vessel to harvest the best crab we can, and my RSW boat fits that perfectly.