Thank you for the three questions, Mr. Chair. I'll try to answer them very quickly.
With respect to the recreational fisheries program, I believe Kevin gave quite a few statistics about how that has been rolled out over the last year and a bit. It's obviously a program that has struck a resident chord with Canadians. We're seeing all kinds of projects coming from all kinds of groups, and already I think we have begun to accumulate a fair number of metrics on the value of the program, which is very encouraging. British Columbia, of course, is planning a huge role in that. The linkage between this program and the salmon fishery is obviously immediate. As I just count my way through here, if you will, there have been at least 15 of these projects in British Columbia, so British Columbians have taken up this program in a big way.
With respect to the Pacific Salmon Foundation, obviously the department has had a relationship with the PSF for a long time. Over the years we had always turned over a certain percentage of our fees to the PSF. Typically it was around $300,000 a year, which the PSF used, in conjunction with all of its other fundraising, to do all kinds of great projects in British Columbia. As you mentioned, in last year's budget that contribution to the PSF was increased by $1 million to now $1.3 million. That has allowed the foundation to expand significantly the types of programs that it runs. Historically it has been among, as you're well aware, the most popular programs in British Columbia. Almost always it's community based. More often than not, it's family based, in that any given weekend you can see moms and dads and kids out there working on really important projects for the long-term success of Pacific salmon. In a sense, the two programs do complement each other.
I'm going to turn to Kevin for the conservation and protection part of the question.