The Magnuson-Stevens act, which is part of U.S. law, has a provision that requires that any imported lobster be the same minimum size in live format as it is for the U.S., so it could. We're undertaking some work right now inside the council, trying to analyze what those two millimetre increases could mean. It's going to mean different things for different parts of the value chain. We also learned recently that there's intensive push-back from the Maine and the New England lobster shoreside and harvesting sectors to those two moves, so we're waiting to see if that may change their schedule. However, as of right now we're monitoring it, trying to figure out what it could do. It could have some impacts.
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