I'm aware of this, and I'm also aware that Marine Harvest could spend its time and efforts much more profitably if it were handling new sites and also the expansion of the population in the existing sites, which is an important request of theirs. They'd like to increase the population of their sites by about 20% in each of their farms because they've proven that this can be done economically and practically, but they haven't had that permission yet.
It's still set at the lower number. I believe that it's 400,000 units per fish farm as a maximum at the present time. They feel that they could go to 500,000 quite easily, without any negative effects. Anything whatsoever that we can do to make their time more productive when they're on the water, or available to go on the water and actually manage their business the way they should be able to without having to participate in strange practices with other organizations that are avowedly against them....
I find it very hard to believe.
I saw it happen in the forest industry. Some of our major companies just folded up and went away. We have one major forest company now on Vancouver Island, Western Forest Products, and at one time we probably had half a dozen that were melded into that one company on a much smaller level, strictly because of the pressure that was brought to bear by these people from the outside influencing our ability to farm normally and log our area in the way that we should be entitled to.