Thank you to the member for the question.
You know, at this point in time we have our department, we're on the ground, we have the post-secondary education and the mobility program on the ground, so at this point in time, no. We're concerned about the socio-economic aspect of it presently. As far as seeing impacts, like some of the impacts we talked about, we haven't seen those on the ground as of yet. That could be something we could see later, because what happens is there are other fisheries that will be kicking in. We have the lobster industry, we have the herring, so there are going to be other processing factors that will be taking place.
I hope I'm answering the question a little bit, but on the socio-economic impact, yes. We're going to be seeing that because it's the number of weeks that people are looking to gain access to, to be able to get their unemployment insurance, to be able to survive. So if those people do not get their weeks, we'll probably see some of the social programs that may have to kick in there. But at this point in time, it's too early to tell. We're basically finishing up a season, but there are other seasons that have been kicking in.
At the same time, we've been doing our work with respect to some of the mobility programs, where we can actually move plant workers from one end of the province to the other. I'll just use a good example: southwest New Brunswick. If we had space to house the people, we could move the people to southwest New Brunswick in the salmon industry. We could move them into the sardine plant, because they're always looking for people; they're always looking for foreign workers or for workers to fill the gaps. Those are some of the challenges as we move forward. How can we move these people, to mobilize them to where there is work? We're going to continue down that road.