Thank you, Minister.
The seasonal enforcement is the same from season to season and is unauthorized. We take a very progressive approach to that as we are enforcing. We do have, and we often do perform, education throughout the continuum of enforcement activities, but if it's unauthorized, we do move to an enforcement position.
We have the right to protect the rights-based fisheries, and we do so. They have to have an orderly and safe season, as do all commercial harvesters. That is the very basis of our approach. When we take the enforcement continuum approach, it's evidence-based; it's based on ground truth, and we move forward based on that being intelligence-supported as we approach these enforcement initiatives. Whether it's a rights-based approach or a commercial harvest approach, unauthorized is unauthorized, and we follow that at every season, regardless of open or out-of-season fishing.
