Okay. The equity issue is about sharing the benefits from the fishery with fishermen, communities, and the general population of Canada. The main beneficiaries of that should be the folks who have their hands in the water.
What's happening with licences across the spectrum is that they're being separated from fishermen. The example of the halibut lease was given earlier and having to pay $7 in terms of the lease. That is happening across all of the groundfish fisheries for those fishermen who don't own licences and quota. Making that connection to fishermen for that access to the resource is essential. That owner-operator component is essential to the resource and to equity going down to and making that connection with the community. That's also essential.
Bruce was talking about the trawl fishery, the processing that's still happening in British Columbia, and the landing in British Columbia. Part of that is associated with a component that was set up when quota was established, and that's the Groundfish Development Authority in British Columbia. It's the one bright light on this equity issue—if there is any bright light—and on making sure there is a connection to community on this coast.
Those are key things. With regard to the issue of corporate concentration, a study that came out this spring clearly shows that corporate concentration went up from 1993 to 2013. That concentration looks only at the ownership. If you look at the ownership and control, we're certain you'll see that an even bigger gap is being created there, creating a larger inequity. We have to move away from that corporate concentration and move to fleet separation, which keeps the processors out of the production and allows a larger free market for access to that fish, so that there's not that kind of monopoly control.
Rob identifies buying only 35% of the salmon. That's still a huge amount. It's having a huge impact. Being able to compete with all of the small processors that are on this coast...if that's their focus now, then they're in huge trouble, and we're going the wrong way.