The biomass five years ago was about 4.2 million tonnes, but what you need to understand is this stock is driven by three year classes; I think it was 2011, 2012 and 2013. Everybody was excited about this resource and this stock at the time because we expected the fish to grow about a centimetre and a half to two centimetres a year at the time.
It happened in the early years, but then it stalled. There was a great expectation, for good reason, for unit 1 redfish, but we now have a fishery whose size has stalled and will not grow, and we have a fishery whose biomass is declining with or without fishing. It will go back to about 10% of its original biomass in the next eight years. That's the reality of unit 1 redfish that people maybe are not following or don't want to talk about, but that is the reality, unfortunately, of this resource and this stock.
It's not a resource allocation issue. I respect Jean so much, but he's just way off base with that observation.
