Yes, very much so. If we look at an idea of five gigawatts of power, which is industry accepted, and about five megawatts per kilometre, you're looking at about a thousand square kilometres of ocean that will be immediately taken out. What that means is that scientific surveys can't be done in those areas, which means we no longer have confidence in the type of stock dynamics occurring within those areas.
It begins to undermine the science, depending on where these areas were placed. Michael put this very clearly by saying, if you go to those less than 30-metre depths and put it entirely within the lobster producing area, you're taking one of the most valuable exports out of Nova Scotia and knocking a hole in its ability to land that wild fish and seafood. At the same time, fishers can't just adjust once you take these areas out. Because it piles more effort into a smaller area, we can actually do more damage to the stock.
There are a lot of pieces and a lot of strings that you can pull at with this ball. You start to see that this is a far more difficult question than simply talking about one small piece of ground.
Thank you.