I think the flexibility provided for in the act around the fish stock provisions, including the minister's discretion, is crucial.
Predicting what will happen and what Mother Nature will do in the future is very difficult. Crab in the Newfoundland and Labrador context bottomed out in mid-2015 or 2014, and now it's resurged. We could not have foreseen that. We went through a colder phase of an overall warming regime.
I think the act is responsive as long as we have flexibility in the minister's discretion and have adequate science to measure as we go. It's like groping in the dark a bit. I teach graduate-level fisheries policy and sustainability, and I tell the students that counting fish is easy, except they move and you can't see them. You have to do the annual science, the continual assessment work, to understand what the resource is doing. As the climate changes, we need to make sure we're doing that annual work. If we miss years, we end up like Alaska. They missed a survey year, and when they checked again, literally the snow crab was gone.