I think it was clear to all fishermen that the entry of Chinese buyers into the marketplace has initially had an upward influence on price.
Lobster fishermen, prepandemic and during the pandemic, were enjoying good lobster prices. I think the fear lies in the conglomeration. The clear answer here is that there needs to be some mechanism put in place to deter companies from owning more than a certain amount of lobster processing or exporting ability.
I don't want to paint all Chinese entry into the marketplace with one brush and say it's negative. Clearly, we need markets in Asia and we need to keep developing more markets for lobster, but we need to do it in a way that prevents any one company from gaining too much control. We need to grapple with the issue of collusion among these companies to set region-wide price fixes in the lobster industry, which is unlawful.