Right now we think it's very important to put in place some monitoring programs, not just for first nations but throughout the Great Lakes Basin. There needs to be much improved monitoring of water temperatures around the basin to track the temperature increases as they occur, and then to start correlating those with studies to see how they're affecting fish populations. In warmer temperatures certain fish species will not be able to spawn and will die out. We need to be ahead of the game and looking out for those fish interests.
Then in terms of climate change, we need to look at areas in the United States, because their temperatures today will be Canada's temperatures tomorrow. So what can we learn from their habitats right now as they're being managed? What species can we expect to migrate north—animal, fish, and plant species?