It doesn't help the commercial fishers who were told to stay off the water while indigenous fishers were exposing the right whales.
I will move on to my next question.
I understand that you have had one instance over four or five years that you can confirm of crab gear being entangled.
Your former colleague in DFO, Allan Billard, lives in my riding. He's been a DFO scientist for over 30 years on whale science. He has written that right whales fall asleep quite often. That's part of their habit. They fall asleep, and they float when they do.
In determining the ship strikes that you've claimed are the reason for the deaths, are the scientists aware that right whales sleep on the top of the water?