Oh, my gosh, have you got a whole day?
I think the government agencies have often used words to appease the public in terms of what is actually going to happen, and this term came around, “precautionary principle”. The assumption is that you're going to be more careful in how you manage, and we've never witnessed that. We've never seen them actually apply that principle, whether it's to do with actual fish management or herring fisheries or fish farms. In fact, the reality is that the government was actually funding the growth and development of fish farms, while actual management funds were being decreased considerably coast to coast to coast. That's something many people don't look at. In fact, the budget for the fish farms was going up and management monies were going down.
That doesn't add up and it doesn't make sense. It doesn't add up to actually upholding what your law says you're supposed to do.