NAFO decisions are taken by the 13 contracting parties. What I can tell you is that it would be very atypical to not have a commercial fishery on a stock in the cautious zone, like northern cod. NAFO would have the jurisdiction to establish whatever harvesting levels it wanted to, were Canada not co-operating at the table and negotiating strong measures.
That was our objective: ensuring the NAFO measures in place are robust, in terms of limiting the harvesting potential of other contracting parties, and ensuring that the conservation measures in place are consistent with Canadian measures, as the manager of this stock.