Really, what would be required is work that is beginning, I will say, between DFO and harvester organizations in the gulf. The discussion around the harvesting of seals and sea lions in British Columbia would also require some knowledge transfer from commercial harvesters in Newfoundland, Îles de la Madeleine, Nunavut and Northwest Territories. There is the knowledge base out there. We just need to find ways to share that knowledge more completely between different regions.
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