In B.C. currently, there are areas that most of us know. Our industry is highly collaborative. We fishermen co-operate with each other tremendously because we have to. It's out of necessity. In the old days, we used to keep secrets, but that doesn't work because we have to assist one other to harvest our catch. We give one another information on where we can fish and where we can't fish.
There are now tremendous areas in B.C. where the volume of bycatch is so high and the stocks are so strong that you can't access your directed catch there. As an example, with halibut, to fish halibut you have a quota to catch, but you have a very small and very tightly regulated bycatch of rockfish to work with, and that precludes a tremendous amount of fishing grounds. What has happened is that our halibut fishery has become concentrated onto the fishing grounds where we can actually get the job done and work within the rules.