The question you raise is a good one.
It's a very big challenge, because on the west coast of Canada, we have several species of salmon. It's a migratory species. They spawn in the rivers and lakes of British Columbia and Alaska, for example, and then they go into the ocean and up to the north Pacific. When they're ready to spawn again, they come back. Of course, they pass through Canadian waters, and some try to spawn in streams of the United States.
We have a fairly complex treaty with the United States, called the Pacific Salmon Treaty. It's actually going to expire and needs to be renewed.
During the 1980s, we had what was called the salmon wars. We had no agreement on who should catch the fish, how many Canadians could catch and how many the Americans could catch. We do it better now.
But on the other question about what assistance we might offer to a Canadian who is charged by an American authority for illegal fishing, I don't know if we provide any assistance in that regard. I don't know of it happening, but it might.
Perhaps the department could answer that one for you.