When you have an owner-operator fishery, you have, just as it says, a person who owns the boat and they're in essence a business, a small business, but a business and they're contributing in a big way. We have only to look at the west coast to see how corporate takeover has taken that right away from people. We here on the east coast still enjoy it, although the policy has been eroded considerably over the years and we've lost some of that. When the owner-operator takes his boat away from the wharf, he generally, as in our lobster fishery as an example, has two to three people on the back end who are making what we would call very good money in our community. They're contributing. All that money stays in the community.
On September 26th, 2016. See this statement in context.