That's a good question. It's an important question, because in the past, prior to the 1970s, much of the fish that was landed around the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador was processed at a plant at that landing site. As there became greater competition for that landed resource, the competition would come from processors who weren't necessarily at that community wharf. They would truck that fish to their fish plants. The more you truck raw material that's already dead, there are two things that happen. One is that there's a greater degradation of the resource before it gets to the processing operation, and the second is that it's necessary to have infrastructure at that wharf that can mitigate some of the damage done as it's trucked.
The initial part of the processing of fish is gutting and bleeding, and then icing and having the insulated boxes and that sort of thing at the site. In the old days, you didn't have that. You harvested and landed right at the plant. With the greater competition for the resource, you might have a product that's landed in St. John's harbour and might be trucked 12 or 13 hours away. That's one of the things that needs to be considered.
I'll give full credit to Mr. Efford when he was fisheries minister, because he spearheaded the greater concentration and emphasis on having a quality product.
That started with you, John, and well done on that.
That must be a consideration, whether the product is cod, crab, or shrimp, whatever's there.