I can give a really good example. I was just in an area of British Columbia called Rivers Inlet, which is a small coastal community in the central coast of British Columbia. This is a community that once had 6 million salmon running in its inlet. It had an oolichan fishery, which is crucial to the first nations in the region. That salmon fishery is gone; it has been closed down completely. The oolichan didn't come back last year.
There's a sports fishing industry there. As Bill mentioned, sports fishing in British Columbia contributes $500 million to the economy. They felt a hit last year.
So we are starting to see the effects of mismanagement of our oceans resources. We're at a point now where we're increasing industry, we have increases of shipping, we have increases in cruise traffic, we have increases in port terminals. All of these things are good for the economic growth of British Columbia, but that kind of increase is only going to contribute to the questions of sustainability.
At this point, with the direction it's going, there's no management. There are absolutely no plans for how we are going to deal with these increases in addition to fishing pressures and the needs of coastal communities.
As far as we're concerned, we're going down a very slippery slope toward a point where we are not going to be able to handle the conflicts in a productive way, and I think we're fairly close.