But we don't have that level, even today. And I think that if we had reasonable enforcement, we wouldn't have to have done all that. It's one of the difficulties of having a quota-based management strategy where you have to have a trip limit as part of your overall rebuilding plan to prevent large amounts of fish being caught, when they are available to be caught. This makes good sense economically. And socially, too.
People have to go to work.
You don't want to keep them home. So, you try to strategize in such a way that you won't have the types of discards that lead to the problem that we're dealing with. But unfortunately in New England, we just have not been able to succeed at that. We have, at times, large numbers of cod. And in fact, often times more cod are being destroyed and thrown back in the water than are being brought to shore.