I guess it was the minister's decision to make, wasn't it.
But there was another decision by another minister that you did decide to interfere with. In 2005, fisheries minister Geoff Regan signed a contract with area 23 and 24 crabbers to the effect that, as soon as the biomass of a particular resource, the crab resource in that area, exceeded a certain tonnage, the quota of crab would be shared on a fifty-fifty basis between traditional aboriginal fleets and the core company fleet. That was a decision by former minister Regan. In 2009 you decided to tear up that contract.
You say now you won't interfere with the decision of a former minister. Minister Loyola Hearn granted Tim Rhyno a licence, and you're going to live with that. Why won't you live with the contract signed with area 23 and 24 crabbers? Why did you tear that up?
You overturned a decision that last year, and again this year, was to split the quota fifty-fifty between those two fleet sectors, but now you're allocating at 62% in favour of the traditional aboriginal fleet and at 38% for the core company fleet. The two fleets may be equal in some numbers, but it isn't quota, and that's what that contract said.
Why the discrepancy? Why the difference?