For clarification to the committee, in 2004 LFA 25, which is shared between New Brunswick and P.E.I, the total fishery on both sides of the strait was in collapse and nearly ruined. Anybody participating in it could not even pay their fuel costs, let alone anything else.
Significant steps were made to restore that fishery to the very strong one it is today, which included removing a significant number of licences and therefore the traps and including the carapace size. Were those two measures what brought that fishery back to where it is quite successful today?