Let's go to the eyes and ears for a second. The eyes and ears are not only the fishery officers and the Coast Guard folks; they're the fishers.
It seems like when we talk to associations—on redfish, we've heard from a number of folks—they feel they're not being consulted by the department. They feel that the pleas from associations and independent fish harvesters groups are falling on deaf ears. How is the department going to fix that?
This is prevalent across catch groups, whether it's on lobster or herring. They finally got somewhere on herring, but it took them years of lobbying the government to get there.
How are we going to change this? We have people on the ground, doing the work and seeing the fish stocks either declining or increasing, and we have a department that doesn't listen to them.
