No, they were scientific issues. Basically, as a scientist, I remember when I was a freshman in DFO, and I worked out this hypothesis about why the fishery off the eastern coast of Nova Scotia collapsed back in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. I thought this was rather interesting from a scientific point of view, but when I spoke about my scientific findings in other fisheries in other parts of the world and compared them to our problem, it was more or less against policy.
They weren't going to pull the Canso causeway out, and that was what the trouble was, so my viewpoint, based on science, was completely ignored. Now the interesting thing is that the new group in lobster management on the east coast agrees with me completely, and they're using my research as the basis for their present management.