Sure, absolutely.
I guess I'd be remiss if I didn't say that after 50 years of being together in a co-operative way, a co-operative model is certainly no panacea. Some days we think it's just an organized way to fight with each other, which is how it turns out some days.
The truth is that it has kept fishing alive in our community and it has kept our processing jobs in our community. It has kept us fighting and talking with each other and finding solutions. When we can have community-based processing, I think that changes everything. When we can have community-based processing, we can have community-based fishing.
I think a lot about scale. Fogo Island, as I said, has 10 fishing communities and 2,700 people. We are lucky we are large enough to have the critical mass to make that model successful. I do think, now more than ever, and certainly other folks here I think are of that view, that a small scale.... E. F. Schumacher wrote a book around 1974 called Small is Beautiful. It's a book about economics. I think it resonates with us more maybe today than it did in 1974. It's about scale. I think when we get the scale right and we keep it community-focused, we can do amazing things.
I'm going to do a shout-out here to British Columbia. There are some folks in British Columbia who fish for salmon. They fish by hook and line. They're on Instagram. They ship that salmon head on, gutted, to some of the finest restaurants in the world. We see it on some of the same menus as where our cod shows up, and I want to commend those folks for doing that.
I think that may not be specifically a co-operative model, but certainly it's community-based, it's premium product, and it's direct to market. We're certainly not the only people in the country who are doing that. We may be the first people in Newfoundland and Labrador, but there are other communities in the country doing it, and I encourage all communities to consider that approach.