This was a 2000 extraction about the same size as one that occurred in a channel downstream. It was about a quarter of the total Fraser River flow, and the DFO authorization included a requirement to have a flow-through. What we would suggest is that even a bridge, which was originally suggested for this particular causeway—and a bridge would have gone in a hole of about that size—still would not have met the obligations to protect fish habitat, because the channel is so large, so wide, and the discharge was so immense that a small cut through like this didn't meet the grade.
On June 1st, 2006. See this statement in context.