No. Not everybody will agree. I would imagine the committee has heard a great deal of views from people who were in rooms with decision-makers last year saying, “Don't cut it.” It's fine to say that then and to now have a different view of what should have happened, but....
The reality is that we have advice from science. It tells us where we are in the trend. We talk about that at the advisory committee. While the advisory committee is not a decision-making body--the minister is the one who makes the decision, because that's the responsibility of the minister--the minister will take into consideration input from a wide variety of sources.
At that point, the population could take the harvest levels; what we're saying now is that it's too risky, at this point, to continue that practice. We really have to get through this downturn quickly and get on the rebuilding for the benefit of everybody. We want it to be short and not be of long duration, and any kind of slow process....
We've had rules like that in the past, when 50% caught was the maximum and there were other kinds of limits, and the stocks that those rules applied to are not with us now. We've learned from those things that you have to take the decisions when the conservation imperative is there.
I believe this is the first crab stock we've applied the precautionary process to, but it's not the first stock that's been subject to it. We've done numerous stocks before this.