The good thing about northern cod and some of our other fisheries is that we have an annual survey completed on the stock.
One of the things that hasn't been covered in the hearings here that we've talked about a lot in the advisory process is that last year's survey was conducted about a month earlier than normal. The general feeling amongst DFO scientists, industry and those around the table is that the actual biomass is in all likelihood larger than was picked up in the survey this past year because it went out much earlier than the normal time series, and the fish migrate in the fall. They migrate offshore a little later in the year.
We are hopeful that with the survey that's ongoing this fall, we'll get a really good, true picture of the state of the resource. We are of the view that the resource is probably stronger than indicated, but we also saw some really strong indicators in the survey, as Ms. Lapointe touched on in her opening comments, related to recruitment and other things.