I can add just a little bit as to how LIFO emerged as a policy position of the Government of Canada. I wish I could add more, but as Jamie said it has been unclear as to how that came to be a policy position of the Government of Canada. In 1997 with the shrimp resource expanding dramatically and I guess with intentions to include new entrants and to grant new access to the fishery, there was quite an elaborate process to develop those 1997 criteria as to how those decisions will be made on who was granted access.
One of the chief concerns certainly was protecting the viability of the offshore fleet and that was accomplished by establishing thresholds. Thresholds were set at the 1996 TAC for each area and for all areas combined. There was no mention of a last in, first out policy. How did it come about? As Jamie said, it's unclear. I know the external review commissioned by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and conducted by Ernst and Young in 2012, which was an independent review of the decision to apply LIFO in SFA 6 in 2010 and 2011, concluded that it was discussed in 2000 at a northern shrimp advisory committee meeting and that it emerged in 2003 in the integrated fisheries management plan, and that was the first time it was explicitly stated as a policy position of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. But as Jamie said in his earlier comments, there certainly was no process comparable to the 1997 process that established those criteria or the 2003 process that established a new access framework.