Thank you for that question.
There are many technologies being applied to protect fish, both those that are at risk and those that are not. We are doing a lot of work to provide alternate habitats and improve habitats in other parts of the river. There are many different techniques. The problem with the incidental take is that you will have individual fish.
Let's use the example of lake sturgeon. Lake sturgeon are in the process of being listed in Manitoba right now. We stock tens of thousands of sturgeon ourselves. We're already members of stewardship boards. We're doing all kinds of research and undertaking initiatives and developing new technologies, but it's inevitable that there will be, for instance, some baby sturgeon or very small sturgeon that, when the rivers are flowing—even though you may have fish screens in front of the dams, even though you may have water passages, even though you may put ultrasonic techniques in to scare fish away—are going to go through the dam or propellors or turbines--even if they're fish-friendly turbines--and be damaged or killed. It is inevitable.
We are already undertaking measures--and want SARA to be changed so we can have authorization to do this--so that overall the sturgeon will be better off with what we're doing than worse off. But it will be inevitable that occasionally an individual member of the species will be killed by accident one way or another. It would be physically impossible to stop any fish from ever being killed in there, but we can help the overall species, including lake sturgeon, to do better than they would have.