There are a lot of comments I could make on that.
I was 22 when the moratorium was called. One of the things I'll always remember is that fish harvesters on the water were telling people that the cod was in trouble. They said that people—this includes the science, the managers, DFO—didn't listen.
All of a sudden, in 1992, John Crosbie made that announcement down in Bay Bulls—when everybody was going to beat down the door in St. John's—that the cod was in trouble and that we'd lost the cod. You know, sometimes the people on the water can say it best. They know what's happening.
Now we're saying that the cod is growing. We feel that the cod stock has come back. I mean, in 3K, like all of Newfoundland, we've relied on shellfish. Shellfish are what paid the bills, what grew businesses and what kept communities going, and we see in 3K that shellfish is on the decline. I think that's directly a predator-prey relationship.
The lesson we need is that we have to remember where we came from with this northern cod. We have to be careful with where we're going, because if shellfish is in decline.... I firmly believe that we can't manage and design the ecosystem to what we want. The ecosystem is going to do what it's going to do. Sometimes we don't have much control over that. We have some control, so we had better be careful how we manage the stock, because this is what we'll have to rely on in the future.