I can take that question, Mr. Chair.
Certainly, for a number of years, we've been engaged in discussions with the fishing industry. It's true the biomass was very large and continues to be very large, just less so. The issue we heard from many parts of the fishing industry is that the individual fish size is very small. There would be no value-added benefit from that size of fish. There's a minimum size to fillet it, for example. Certainly, the objective of the industry is to find higher-value markets, largely international, in order to get the maximum value back into Canada. That wouldn't be achieved with fish that are extremely small.
For reasons we don't fully understand, this stock has stopped growing. Individual fish size is smaller than what is typical. We believe the individual fish are not going to reach a size that is largely able to be filleted. That is why the minister, in part, took the decision to open it now.