My first thought is very clear: what is the inshore fishery? After all these years, that's the question that has not yet been answered in Newfoundland and Labrador. If the inshore fishery is the 65-foot boat—right now, there's the 89-foot, and it's down to just small boat fisherman and the bays—I would agree with it.
If it's not, then I disagree, because now that all that fish is allocated to the inshore fleet, the 42-foot boat that has been fishing with the gillnets has to change. That has to stop. They're limited to where they can travel because of weather conditions. When you have a 42-foot boat, you can only go a short distance from home. You're talking about 10 to 12 miles, you know. That's usually what it is.
The other boats, the 65-footers and the 79-footers, that fleet of inshore boats, can fish on the Grand Banks, and they can give you a bit of an understanding of how much cod is really out there, because nobody is allowed to put a piece of fishing gear in the water out there now, anywhere on the Grand Banks. That's the key. That's a failure in itself because we have many spots out there, and I'm sure there are people here who know more about it than I do. They know about the Virgin Rocks, the Hamilton Bank, and the Funk Island Bank, and that's where the offshore Atlantic cod stocks are.
There's no reason in the world why we couldn't get this fishery back and going the way it should be going, and we don't need to be making a lot of investment to it. The boats have the gear. The boats have the equipment. They're not looking for money to buy things. They're looking for the right to go fishing.