Based on what we've seen happen, as I have referred to before regarding New Brunswick in 1995, and again in 2009-10, where we had lobster deaths because of exposure to pesticides related to the open-net aquaculture industry, there are concerns that if we had these changes to the regulations for the fish pathogens, these substances, these chemicals, like permethrin, which was responsible for the death of the lobsters back in 2010, could then even become allowed in Canada.
We're concerned because what we saw happen in New Brunswick was fishermen pulling up traps that were full of dead lobster.
What we also have a concern about is who is looking at what is potentially going to happen to our lobster larvae. That's the future biomass of our industry. We don't know of any sufficient studies that have been done to look at the implications of these types of chemicals going out into the environment and what that may do to these larvae.
Again, we come back to the perception. If these types of things are allowed to happen within the industry, and the industry is occurring in and around ecologically sensitive areas that have productive lobster fisheries, it's really hard to not be concerned about what the implications will be on how people perceive the product that you're harvesting from around those areas.