First of all, I'm a strong believer in a business sense. I don't like the idea of financial support to an industry from government dollars. I was a business person myself, and I was also, as you know, a politician. I can assure you of one thing. For all of the fishermen I talk to—and that's many fishermen every year—give them the opportunity to fish, and they will provide the tools they need.
We did the crab plants back when I was fisheries minister in 1996, and we based the plants on a regional basis around the province. They weren't all located in one part of the island. That worked out well for the crab industry when it came to the quality of the product. We had examples of trucking tractor-trailer loads of crab down to my area, down in the community where I live. I saw it myself. I was in government at the time, and it was two and three days before they were unloaded. You can't have a quality product like that.
Seriously, for the majority of fishermen in Newfoundland and Labrador, give them the right to go fishing, and they'll find the tools. All you have to do is tell them. The first thing I would do is take every gillnet in Newfoundland and have a bonfire.