The obvious point we all agree on is that overfishing of stocks, including cod, has done far more to hurt communities in Newfoundland than any conservation or conservationist has. These are tough decisions. The idea of developing a proper plan and setting goals in advance actually means you need to have that discussion, and it's a tough one. Have it before, not after, you reach these thresholds. We're in the position now of expecting a decision from the minister on cod shortly, and nobody has any guidance or sense of where he's going to go with it because there's complete and utter discretion on it, with no plan to guide us. Twenty-six years after the collapse, we still don't have agreement on where we're trying to go with the stock or at what levels we will start to allow fishing. Those are tough discussions that we ought to have, and we ought to have them before we get to this stage.
On May 1st, 2018. See this statement in context.