You've suggested that some of the problem--or perhaps most of the problem--lies with the fact that, subsequent to the moratorium, a number of temporary licences were issued, many of which now have become permanent.
Did the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador have an opinion while that was going on in the nineties? Were they opposed to it and saying to the federal government that they thought this could be a problem, so let's not do it...? Or were they supportive of the enlarging of the snow crab industry?