In effect, it's a willing seller-willing buyer process. In fact, no fisherman can sell his licence to another fisherman. He actually has to petition the minister to retire that licence in his name and reinstate it in another fisherman's name.
That's the theory. The practice is that you can buy and sell licences, and it's a market-based system. That's what the government has been using to buy licences.
For instance, in the case of the halibut fishery, I think 21% of the quota is now beneficially owned by first nations for the purposes of treaty settlements. Some are settled; most aren't. Those licences and the associated quota have been bought out of the commercial fishing.