Absolutely. They're intricately linked, intimately linked. I believe my colleague Mr. Gawn addressed this. If we don't have a healthy ecosystem, we don't have healthy fisheries. We are extremely sensitive to that.
We have a huge amount of knowledge about the ecosystem, details that actually aren't incorporated into our management system. There are distinct spawning areas, for instance, for different species—herring, groundfish, lobster—all these areas that can only come from knowledge on the ground that's accumulated over, in some cases, centuries. When we're talking about first nations people, it's from time immemorial. In Atlantic Canada, we have 400 or 500 years of occupying the territory and we've accumulated that traditional knowledge.
I can give you some examples. In the Miramichi, when the town was talking about a sewage outlet, they were going to put it into a spawning area for striped bass. They didn't know that. The fishermen knew that.
There are all kinds of examples. We need these environmental protections. We need a healthy coastal economy based on fisheries. That's what our coastal economy is based on, fisheries.