The fishery is like any entrepreneurial business based on a commodity. There are ups and downs in the fishery. I'll quote again the speech from our chair at the rally in Grande-Rivière last week. He said he's faced difficult times because of quota reductions and/or price reductions and interest rates and fuel rates, but he's never really been faced with the situation where he's been told that basically he's done.
I appreciate where you're coming at, Mr. Perkins. It's good to see you again as well.
This fishery closed in 1994, and I think that goes back to Minister LeBlanc's decision. What I would say again is that there's a group of people who have lived—that's who they are, and that's where they're from—in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The offshore was given an opportunity to move. I would say, to quote a former DFO bureaucrat on another issue, they were rewarded handsomely with the resources in the South Labrador Sea, the shrimp and—