If I had a moment I could find the quote, but Minister Hearn specifically announced that it was the purpose of.... First of all, it was the fishermen's union that requested the term “temporary” be regularized into the regular licence. Minister Hearn announced that the purpose of that was to facilitate rationalization, to allow combining of licences, to deal with the overcapacity that had already emerged in the inshore shrimp sector. Minister Hearn further went on to announce that this was in no way going to change the allocation policy announced by the previous minister and in the plan.
In fact, this step to make the LIFO term appear, very crisply, subject only to land claims agreements appeared in 2007. That was under Minister Hearn's tutelage, and he did that because of the confusion being created over the changing of the temporary designation into a regular licence.