I agree that all players within an economic model, whether it's the fishery or any other industry, need to know, or have the normal expectation that if they invest, they're stakeholders and expect to have a return. So in that environment I think stable policy is very much needed, but when policy evolves.... As you said, we're politicians, we make policy. We often make a policy, and through experience and what happens in a particular area, that policy needs to be changed because the variables change.
So while I agree, in one sense, with stability in regard to the economic model in terms of the expectations, if the variables within a fishery or any other industry change, policy needs to change to reflect that, for the good of the industry as a whole, for the good of all those participants.
Everybody has a right to share in a public resource. We need to find a way to do it that allows them to share equitably, and if changes need to be made in the policy at some point after being in place for 10 or 15 years, well, I would suggest that the policy needs to change to reflect today's happenings in an industry.