In the business world, it comes down to whoever is willing to fish it for the least amount of money. We see our counterparts in your beautiful province, MP Barron, in B.C. We've talked to colleagues at international conferences about people having to pay three-quarters of the value of the shore price just to go fishing.
You can say that people will be fair, but it's a big debate about business and morality. We know that people are in difficult situations. Besides that, when you have something like halibut, you have some flexibility to at least make some money if you had to buy that quota in the water, but when you're dealing with redfish, which we know right now is, and probably always will be, of a somewhat lower value, it's not going to put most of our members in a very good position.
I think there can be some flexibility, for sure, but they need their own allocations. All the independent owner-operators who are now going out of business because of shrimp need a significant portion of their own allocations to have an opportunity for viability.