There have been a number of licence withdrawal programs in the past. Normally, licences are withdrawn and the resource returns. So we have to be very careful. As a number of studies show, you have to make sure you have conservation measures in exchange for improving what you leave in the water. If we withdraw licences and have conservation measures, we have a better chance of achieving a long-term effect. As regards the fishermen's economy, you reduce the number of fishermen. This improves the economic pie for those remaining. We've made some concessions on species conservation. That's our perspective, and that's what we encourage. Some tools were recently put on the table, but we're far from achieving the desired objectives. In fact, what was recently put on the table for our fishermen was merely a percentage of what is necessary in order to achieve a reasonable viability threshold for inshore fishermen.
On May 28th, 2010. See this statement in context.