It's hard for me to speak to the exact situation in British Columbia because I'm not aware of exactly how it works. To put it in perspective, I'm a multispecies licence-holder. I currently have a lobster, mackerel, herring, scallop and groundfish licence. I can divest any one of those to another harvester. If somebody doesn't have a scallop licence and he wants to buy a scallop licence, I can allow that to go. I'm not in that situation, but I can see how it would put somebody in a tight spot, if, for whatever reason, they wanted to switch from one fishery to another, allow one licence to go to bring another one in. It would hamper them in a way, yes.
On February 6th, 2019. See this statement in context.