I think co-management has to involve fishermen information coming from surveys and from the catch per unit effort. Let's say a stock is in the critical zone. Well, we should never close a fishery. We should adapt our fishery in terms of a percentage of access that would gain access and gain information for our science that we need, but at the same time keep fishermen on the water for the culture that's associated with these fisheries and the economic importance of them.
For instance, there's the spring herring in southeastern New Brunswick. The spring herring fishery for us down there is important socio-economically but also culturally for the region. I mean, the town of Cap-Pelé was founded on herring and the herring smokers. Right now there's none of that going on in the spring. I think there needs to be more room for fishermen input. We used to have the fisheries resource conservation council, the FRCC, which would bring together an ad hoc committee of scientists from DFO but also external scientists and fishermen. They were around the same table. The recommendations that would come out of these committee reports were not only excellent; they also had a lot of buy-in from the industry groups around the table. That should be something to consider as well.