If I recall, when working with that report and when working with Gilles Thériault on that report, yes, there was some discussion with respect to what was happening with the resource and the cyclical decline. By the same token, at that time there was crab going every which way. They were talking about how many plant workers should be coming into the plants, where the plant workers were going to be going.
At the same time, there was an abundance of crab coming into the wharf, and we didn't know where the crab was going. This report was to find out how we could work together to collaborate not only with the harvesters but also with the processors in the market, so we could maximize the values and optimize the values to New Brunswick plants. I made reference to three plants. Sorry, there are 12 processing plants. The objective was to bring the product in and process it in a regulated manner so that each of the plants would be able to maintain its viability, instead of being completely destabilized with not knowing how much crab would be coming in at any given time. There were times when the crab would hit the wharf and be picked up by a truck and be going to a neighbouring province for processing. It was an uncertainty.
The objective there was not so much to talk about biomass but how it is that we can maximize the value of that crab that is coming onshore to the value of the New Brunswick industry. That was the utmost importance at that time. At that point in time we were dealing with surpluses of crab that were coming onshore, that were landing at the wharves. They couldn't process it fast enough. What we were trying to do, as I say, was maximize the value of the crab coming onshore so that all plants could have a stabilized access, so that the crab wouldn't be wasted, so that the plant workers were getting their proper hours. How do we find mechanisms so that there's not that glut of crab coming in where we have to have people working for 24 hours in a plant to make it happen? How can we spread it out, pace it a little bit throughout the season?