Yes, cod is certainly one of those staple species for us. Arctic salmon and Arctic char are as well. Cod is one of the species we've fished from time immemorial, before our interactions with the Vikings, long before Christopher Columbus and long before any other western people came to our shores.
It is intrinsic to who we are as a people, the same as with polar bears, caribou and everything else. It's hard to put into words, in a western sense, what that cultural connection is. It's often difficult for me to do that, but we have a relationship with cod. We've always had a relationship with cod, and we certainly want to be involved in any kind of management measures and fisheries that involve cod from now and going into the future.