Cod spends its winter in 2J primarily, and then it comes into the inshore areas in 3K and 3L in the summer months. Then it goes back.
We have a fisheries improvement project that we've been doing for 10 years now in the process of getting northern cod MSC-certified. We announced in Barcelona, at the seafood exposition several weeks ago, that we have entered MSC full assessment.
Part of that work is migration patterns and tracking the migration patterns. We've tagged 1,100 northern cod. For some of the tags, the batteries operate for five years. We have 75 transponders in the ocean on the northeast coast of Newfoundland. We are monitoring the migration patterns.
The ecosystem has changed since the early 1980s and 1990s. We need to study the migration patterns, so we understand the movements of the cod to be able to manage the fishery better, based on current management science.