I'm not really qualified to tell you what tools they should be using, but I would say to look at what they're doing now and do something different, because it's not working.
What concerns me about Greenland is, first of all, that it's an opportunistic fishery, as you mentioned. They don't produce many fish, if any at all. They are taking the lion's share of eastern Canadian fish, and even some from eastern United States as well. It's a fishery that goes back to the 1950s. It's not rooted in aboriginal tradition. It's a crime of opportunity. It is a crime: it's an international hostage issue, essentially.
I think we've been a little too cautious. I read some of the things that come out of the organizations. I can find you quote after quote of our key conservation leaders saying, “We can understand Greenland because, after all, we're still killing fish in Atlantic Canada and we've got to stop killing fish in Atlantic Canada, and then Greenland will see what a good example we set, and they'll stop killing too.”
I don't think that's going to work. I think you have a bullying situation here. I think we've been spending so much time giving ammunition to the Greenland fishery, they're turning our own words against us. The reality is that the fish that we were taking in Atlantic Canada, before we gave it all up or were scapegoated, were [Inaudible--Editor], which don't go to Greenland. By everybody's estimation, they are far more inconsequential to the long-term health of the resource. But Greenland is taking those fish, those prime maiden female fish.
Something has to be done about that. I would say to call upon the Americans as well, because there's very good evidence to suggest that it was actually the U.S. submarines under the ice that found the feeding grounds of the salmon in the 1950s, and then announced to the Greenlanders that there was a lot of salmon feeding off their coast. Greenland, of course, took advantage of that. I think there's an onus upon the U.S., too. I've not heard a lot of calls for that. I do get a lot of advice from Americans telling us how we should fix it and all the sacrifices we should make. I would say, maybe they might step up as well.