I'm aware of spawning grounds in the habitat for herring in the gulf and the Scotian Shelf area, and I'm not so sure for the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. For stocks within the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence and along the Scotian Shelf into the Gulf of Maine, herring spawn on sandy bottoms, on banks. On the west coast, specific herring, by and large, as we're aware, spawn on algae, so on very sandy bottoms. In most of those areas during the spawning season, other types of human activities are curtailed through management measures.
From a science perspective, we don't have a concern—at least, about the spawning beds themselves.