Again, I applaud anyone and all parties, as long as they're on the same page and going in the same direction, to make it better for the whole. I'm welcoming any party and any organization or group for the saltwater fishery.
To this point, it's been mostly scientists with BIO or local scientists who have been harnessing the information that we've brought in from these fish. To date, the shark tournaments are the only sampling that was being taken of the sharks offshore. The scientists went through the entrails and checked to see what they ate and so on, on the basis of the tournament.
That was another reason the licences were even allowed: to cut down on the cost to DFO for doing sampling themselves. We can go as a community, as a tournament, and actually have something that we can give to others. In this case, it's the IWK. It's a win-win, so I applaud anyone that would like to be involved in the saltwater fishery, no matter what organization it is.