Yes. The process we have right now, of course, is that under the Fisheries Act, the minister is responsible for deciding who gets to fish, when they fish, how much they fish, how they fish. All of these details rest with the minister. All the major fish plans are sent to the minister for a decision.
To get to that point, we go through what's called a RAP, a regional assessment process, where the science advice is discussed in public with peers and with stakeholders present. So there's a very public process to establish the stock status report.
The stock status report then is moved from that process to one in which we have an advisory committee. The advisory committee will discuss the stock status. They'll look at the management of the fishery and provide advice as to how they think it should be managed, what the TAC should be, what the approach should be, what the conservation measures should be, and so on. That then goes into a decision memo for the minister to consider. Their advice is reflected in the memorandum to the minister. Then there will be briefings of the minister. Following that, there will be a decision.
Obviously at that point, when we take the points of view of the stakeholders and move to the decision-making, there is no process described in the Fisheries Act for this to take place. How the minister's discretion is used is not described under the current Fisheries Act. That's one reason the government has proposed to move ahead with the new Fisheries Act, to make that whole process more transparent. Making these processes more transparent is a goal of the department and the minister. But if you're on the receiving end of this, certainly you can understand why they would have that view from time to time. They'd make their points, and then they'd wait for the decision to be announced. There's no clarity on the process.