I'm not the best person to ask on that because I don't know the process. They do audits, and there's a process where a fishery has to meet certain requirements to get certification. I would suspect that maybe longline would be more favourable. I don't know how they would view it, but I would suspect it would be. When you're talking about bottom trawling, the trawler doesn't discriminate what goes in there. There's no grid. There's no sorting like there is with shrimp. I would think there could be implications in terms of the certification for the cod when you're using different gear types.
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