I have one point to add to the minister's comments on science. The minister, in his opening remarks, mentioned the Centre for Fisheries Ecosystems Research, which was an institute that was set up at the marine institute by the provincial government to undertake science, and particularly science on northern cod, utilizing research scientists and graduate students at the university.
It has built a significant capacity at the university. It was using technologies that aren't being used on the coast here in Newfoundland—for example, acoustic surveying. The Norwegians and the Icelanders do multiple surveys in a year and also do acoustic surveys. That hadn't been done in the province here. The survey that DFO does generally is a groundfish trawl survey done each fall.
The science that the Centre for Fisheries Ecosystems Research was able to contribute to the science being done by DFO—and it was in collaboration, to a large extent—certainly increased the knowledge base that the scientists collectively had on the northern cod stock. They did satellite tagging on cod. This was the first time in the world that cod had been tagged by satellite tags.
That gave a much better understanding of the migratory patterns of the fish. It was found that large fish, which the DFO surveys had not been finding, were actually inshore for longer and different periods of the year than had been the case prior to the moratorium. There is a lot of additional science.
Concerning the capelin, which the minister and Mr. Efford both mentioned, we do very little science on capelin. Capelin is absolutely critical to the viability of the cod stock. In Norway and Iceland, they do a tremendous amount of research on capelin, including acoustic surveys. The amount of science we do on capelin is very limited. I believe it's as important to know what the situation is in the capelin stock as to know what the situation is in the cod stock.