Thank you, Mr. Matthews.
To our witnesses, I very much appreciate the fact of your coming here today. It was an excellent presentation; it was well appointed; there was a lot of documentation with it. It's probably one of the better presentations I've ever seen at committee.
I have two very brief questions for you. The first one is on the moratorium that was placed on gravel removals in the Fraser River in 1998. That moratorium was lifted. Why? Why was it implemented in 1998? What was the basis of the science behind it?