I think that when the Atlantic policy review was being done there should have been an immediate rollout of what that meant for aboriginal fisheries. There should have been a rollout of education when the Marshall decision was done and when it was clarified.
The department spent a lot of time allocating money and funds and ways of buying licences, which I think was needed, but it should not have ended there. We should have had a massive amount of treaty education, Marshall education and really working proactively with the independent fishers to figure out the way forward. We would have avoided much of this conflict.