There really is no difference between Canada and the U.S. in what causes serious injury and mortality in North Atlantic right whales. It's entanglement in rope and it's vessel strikes.
There are a number of programs whereby both Canada and the U.S. are addressing it by using different methods, such as rope on demand or weak links. We have success stories on both sides of the border in small experimental fisheries. For example, a fishery that's been closed for 10 years in Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina has recently been reopened. After 10 years of fishermen not being able to fish sea bass, they simply switched over to rope on demand gear and got experimental fishing permits to do so.
We're at a stage where we have many examples. We were drinking from a fire hose in 2017, 2018, and 2019, when we were responding to all of these carcasses and all of this habitat shift as the animals moved into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. We're in a position now to start narrowly tailoring responses—somebody mentioned a sectoral approach—as we learn more and more about the right whales and potentially as they learn about the Gulf of St. Lawrence, because this is probably a new habitat for them as well. We can start putting this into practice en masse, and not an experiment here and an experiment there.
Let's get the gear in the hands of the fishermen. Let's triage this and get various kinds of ropeless gear or rope on demand gear into the hands of fishermen. Let them try it in the closed areas next season.