Most certainly there is. When my members and I heard that there was the potential for the sale of Clearwater fishery access, we were elated, because we assumed that the government would buy that access and convert it to moderate livelihood fishery access. I think at the height of a fishery crisis in Atlantic Canada, this tremendous opportunity presented itself, and the government turned a blind eye to it. The truth is that there is a tremendous economic potential in Clearwater's offshore lobster monopoly, and the opening of adjacent LFAs to that area would reduce fishing pressure in the inshore and open a tremendous area for moderate livelihood fishing, whilst at the same time building acceptance among the commercial fishing industry for the integration of indigenous people. It would be a win-win for all communities in Nova Scotia. It might not be a win-win for politicians involved in this deal, but I think it's important to point out that it can still happen that way and that it would be mutually beneficial to indigenous and non-indigenous fishermen.
The lobster access was granted to swordfishermen in the 1970s because of the mercury crisis and was broken up into many different licences; and since then, because of manipulation of policy and lobbying, they've been conglomerated onto one vessel, which to my knowledge, has no indigenous fishermen aboard it. That one profit-driven enterprise would replace the potential for hundreds of jobs in the moderate livelihood fishery.
I find it beyond belief that Minister Jordan would ignore that potential.