I'll be quick, because Kim probably has things to say about this as well.
As Dr. Brown said, there's not one silver bullet, so flexibility is of course important. I think it's where we are flexible that is critical. We more or less know when the whales migrate. We generally know where they are congregating. I think we need to be flexible in terms of our solutions and also be opportunistic and quite rapid. I think fishermen can be very helpful on the ground on that.
You know, the dynamic closures versus static closures were tricky. I know they were tricky for fishermen, not just for the fishing but also for getting access to the plants that they would usually sell to if they were fishing in a slightly different area.
I think there is already in fact some flexibility built into the way that every year there is a convening of all the stakeholders and rights holders to talk about what needs to be done, so it's flexibility to achieve what? I think flexibility to achieve and ensure the conservation of right whales is really important. That would help ensure that our fisheries are sustainable and have access to markets.
On the other side, of course one size doesn't fit all. We heard from Mr. Small about some things with gillnets. One size doesn't fit all with fishing gear as well, or in the Bay of Fundy, or in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. I think that in the discussions, there has been a fair bit of flexibility. I would just make sure that we err on the side of ensuring that this flexibility is for the outcome of right whales. Otherwise, we will tend to slip, and slipping could result in more entanglement and deaths.
For every year that there are no fatalities, I think everybody breathes a grand sigh of relief. We want to make sure that whatever we do maintains that sigh of relief at the end of the migration period.