I can only base it on my experience and the knowledge that I have. I know that this year—because I'm in touch with fishermen all the time—there were in excess of 3,000 traps removed from the bay that were supposedly involved in an FSC fishery.
Now, we're supposed to have the understanding that there were 250 traps set for this moderate livelihood fishery to start. That was initially what we'd been told.
I want to give you a little bit of clarity here. When this started, from September 17 to October 3, when they started hauling their traps, Mr. Sack himself said that they caught $1.2 million worth of lobsters. If we extrapolate that backwards and look at the price that they were getting for poor-quality lobsters, that's roughly 300,000 pounds of lobster in that short period of time. It takes a commercial fisherman three to four years to catch 300,000 pounds of lobster, depending on the size of the vessel and how far the fisherman would have to travel to set the gear.
That gives you an idea of how many lobsters are in that bay in the summer and how vulnerable they are. Most of them—I would say 50% of them—die when they're taken out of the water. That's why we found thousands of pounds in the woods that were discarded because they weren't marketable.