Thank you.
Mr. Chair, in the early part of the project—this is the 1970s—when the hydroelectric project was in commission, the eelgrass was calculated back then by Environment Canada, the Canadian Wildlife Service, at 250 square kilometres. It has been our knowledge that it will fluctuate. It will come and go--it will disappear, let's say, for a year, and it will come back again the following year--but it will never disappear for a period of 10 or 20 years. This is what we are experiencing now.
In 1995 we had an upshoot, an increase in density of eelgrass, and since then it has been on the decline. You see, since the commissioning of the La Grande complex, the eelgrass disappeared and then came back in 1995, I believe. Okay, let's say from 1978—