What I might offer, frankly, is the tremendous value of the perceptions and the information held by licence-holders in identifying those challenges to DFO.
Certainly, when we developed the inshore regulations in conjunction with inshore harvesters, their insights into the mechanisms employed within that fishery and the relationships they hold with processing facilities across Atlantic Canada and Quebec were invaluable to the department. It was through those discussions and consultations that we were able to develop the inshore regulations in a way that sought to meet the joint objectives of both the department and the affected community, the inshore licence-holders, as well as to not overly prescribe limitations that might affect valid business relationships that are established.