Mr. Lugar, I'll make the comment that as a Canadian elected official who represents a rural resource area, I have an instinctive aversion to certification of Canadian natural resource management practices, simply because the buck should stop with elected officials, not with organizations resident in foreign countries. Too often Canada has been victimized by these kinds of efforts. Yours is probably not one of them. The professionalism of your group is evident. Nevertheless, I'm extremely sensitive to these kinds of efforts, and question industries buying into them on a regular basis.
Having said that, Mr. Lugar, from your experience has there ever been a case of a shrimp population recovering from such a decline as this when draconian fishery catch reduction limits have been put in place?