Yes.
About 15 years ago, we established sustainability policies to guide stock management decisions.
In terms of the pelagic fisheries, we obviously have to make decisions very early on to make sure those stocks are protected.
With respect to northern cod, the decision is the result of a review of the model that was accepted in the fall of last year. We're now able to include data since the 1950s. Now that the model has more data and has been revised, we're able to know that the stock is in the cautious zone, or the orange zone, as it is called.
It was on this basis that the minister made the decision to reopen the commercial northern cod fishery, accompanied by a very small increase in the total allowable catch from 13,000 to 18,000 tonnes for Canada. The difference in risk to the stock compared to stewardship fishery is very slight.