First of all, to go back to your first question, Mr. Cleary, as you know in our province there are very little opportunities with all of those species. We're seeing challenges and pressures put on the biomass, certainly with crab, as you mentioned.
There are not a whole lot of other options for people when you look at the ten plants that we spoke about here today that primarily rely upon shrimp to make them viable. It's not as if they could actually have another option that they could easily go to.
To your second question about the science and the importance of science, we know that this is an interconnected ecological fishery that we're talking about here. Historically, if cod stocks are lowering will you see an increase in shrimp? Right now we're just seeing this transition taking place right now, or this is what people are telling us.
It's extremely important that we get the benchmarks in place so that we can properly assess and get an evaluation on how the stocks actually look. Not just in the shrimp stocks of course, but in all other species as well, it's important that we get those benchmarks in place because without that science it's really just a guess.