Mr. Chairman, in response to the member, I will point out that before the commercial fishery closed down in 1992, we Newfoundlanders and Labradorians had no limit, no season, no restrictions on us whatsoever. We were allowed to go out and catch fish for ourselves and our families and process them and bring them home. There were no guidelines as such.
After the moratorium was announced, and then when the recreational food fishery opened a number of years later, there were restrictions on dates when I could go out and bag them and on how many fish I could retain.