I'd like to speak to the situation in southwest Nova Scotia, where we did allow the five-foot stern extensions on lobster fishing boats. Many of those enterprises also had groundfish fixed-gear, less-than-45-foot licences. When the department made the announcement in 2003 that this would apply in the 2004-05 lobster fishing season, we were scrambling to determine what the spinoff consequences would be on the fixed-gear groundfish fishery in that area. At the end of the day, over a period of no fewer than six consultations with the fixed-gear groundfish fleet, we finally, in 2008, extended this modification to that fishery.
In short, the reason is that change is hard. Change is really hard. Sometimes people become very comfortable with the status quo. We did what we could to work with the industry representatives to make that change, something that would simplify life for them and people in that area. Still, it took us from 2004-05 to 2008 to get the representatives for the fishery on board to allow that change.