There are discussions that are under way among fish harvester organizations around measures they may or may not want to come together on and propose to the department, in terms of changes to the management of the fishery, to avoid the kinds of situations that occurred last year in terms of poor quality and volumes of landings and so on. That will all come to the department as part of the advisory committee process over the winter period. On the basis of that, the department would then be making recommendations to the minister, as appropriate, for any changes that might occur in terms of any of the conservation requirements for lobster fisheries for next year.
On December 4th, 2012. See this statement in context.