No, these are the logbooks that the fishermen take their time to fill out as accurately as they can, so why is that data not important to DFO? Do you not trust the fishermen? Do you not have enough budget with the doubling of the budget since 2015 and 50% more employees?
Logbook data that's four years old could have helped last year to give an increase in the quota, because the groundfish council wanted a 17,000-tonne quota and the FFAW asked for 25,000 tonnes, yet you're sitting on that data, not tabulated. The fishermen know, DFO people back home know, they tell me, that northern cod is quite plentiful, based on the catch rates.
Why has that not been used in setting the quotas since the cod came out of the critical zone in 2016?