I would agree. Taking a good look yearly at cod at this point, considering its importance to the people of the province, would make sense. Earlier, I also suggested more investment in ecosystem science as well.
What happened in the last 25 years, with much of this slow building up of the cod stock, is certainly believed to have had to do with the environmental conditions around it. Really, part of what happened in the 1980s and 1990s was something more conducive to shellfish recruitment, and we saw large increases in shrimp and crab and decreases in many groundfish species. Maybe more work on that could have helped us to manage better along the way in terms of looking at predator and prey species.
The other part of that I mentioned before but will mention again is getting more information from harvesters who are on the water day in and day out and have so much knowledge and expertise. I don't think we fully utilize that knowledge. It can be difficult to implement it in stock assessments, but we need to do a better job of it.