I won't sit here and explain their finding. We disagree with it. We believe that the protections that we have in place in the snow crab and lobster fisheries in Canada are world class and do indeed achieve an absolutely high-quality level of protection of North Atlantic right whales.
It's not just me who's saying that. Our statistics, which show that we have dramatically reduced the rate of entanglement and mortality in Canadian waters, speak for themselves.
Equally, it's easy for me to sit here and say that the work that we have done is excellent, but so have other groups, like The Pew Charitable Trust that I mentioned before. Many Canadian ENGOs have also independently said that Canada's measures are indeed exceptional.
We disagree with their findings and we think that in part they have painted us with a single brush. For example, the Canadian and U.S. lobster fisheries are very different in terms of the season length. Ours is a few weeks long. The U.S. has a much longer season. The amount of gear is different by orders of magnitude. The location where the fishing occurs is largely in waters where we almost never see North Atlantic right whales. We do occasionally, so we need measures to protect them should they show up in those shallow waters.
All of those attributes are extremely different from the U.S., and we believe that had those differences been fully understood, a different outcome would have been achieved. Let me assure you that we did everything we could to ensure that they understood that. Unfortunately, I think their focus was on the attributes of the U.S. fisheries, and those appear to have been applied more broadly to us as well.