Thank you.
I have a specific question about an area on the Newfoundland coast, from Cape Bauld to Cape Norman, where the cod fishery was shut down in 1992. It's a part of 4R, which remained open until 1993, but scientifically, that part of the stock was considered to be northern cod.
Now, with the stewardship fishery and now this commercial fishery, harvesters who have home ports between Cape Norman and Cape Bauld aren't allowed to fish in that area. They have to go outside into a certain part of 3K.
Why can't they fish in that area between Cape Norman and Cape Bauld if that's an area that science has identified as having stock that is northern cod? Why aren't they allowed to fish that area? Why are they being pushed outside and actually driving their carbon footprint way up in having to do so?