We have received significant support from the federal government through the ghost gear program fund, so we've been able to remove subsurface ghost gear and develop sustainable end-of-life solutions for processing this material once it's removed. I'd like to note that I don't think we struggled with the administration process itself. It was just the timing of the administrative process, and then aligning that with the fiscal end of year and the constraints of the funding we received.
We're asking to look—when we're in the field, collecting and removing vessels—at potential concessions, if there are more vessels underneath those vessels or, from a shoreline perspective, if those vessels are completely ripped apart and too far gone and are just polluting everywhere. If there's something in place that we can quickly apply for, like a mechanism that can then be enacted and that we can run with, instead of having to go back to a six month-plus process, that's what we're really asking for.
We have been funded. We do have the ability to go through the administrative process, and we've done that repeatedly. The challenge is that, once we're in that and when we're actually doing the work, it would be great to have some of those additional mechanisms in place.
Thank you.