That is an excellent question. I will ask my colleagues to answer that as well.
From what I know, there were some meetings after the fact, after the moratorium was announced, in March. There were discussions between senior officials from Ottawa and their counterparts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, in the United States.
Yet it should not take the closure of a fishery to get to that stage. Before any radical decision is made, as was the case this spring, the two countries need to work together and reach agreements on catch and fish preservation methods.