Fisheries committee  At this stage, we've elected not to go to court. DFO has elected not to appeal Larocque. Everybody agreed unanimously to raise some money to assist us in our fishery. Once Larocque came out, we found out that we couldn't spend that money, because if somebody challenged us, we'd be responsible for it personally.

Fisheries committee  I think the bulk of them started around 1997 with the herring and the groundfish in that area. For us, we had the coho response in 1996, and I think about 1997 is when we really started to get into this taking of fish to add to the charter programs in science.

Fisheries committee  A little bit of money came through the AFS, through a couple of bands, to put a couple of small charters in their area. There was a little bit there, but I'm not familiar on the way it went. I'm pretty sure most of that money came from DFO.

Fisheries committee  Just for clarification on what Phil's talking about, I managed that fishery in August for salmon. It was a fishery that was set up way prior to Larocque and agreed upon by all the salmon organizations in B.C. We went ahead with it, and we did it with DFO's blessing. Yes, there is money, and it's done by the CSAB, the Commercial Salmon Advisory Board.

Fisheries committee  I can give you a quick one on the herring that we just went through. We have an extensive herring program. In the past, we went out for the whole month of March and did charter systems, where you test the fish, put it in and it goes back to the biological station for overall stock assessment.