Thank you.
My second question, and for the life of me I can't quite figure it out, is this. We have very severe restrictions on any disturbance of habitat across the country, from coast to coast to coast. We've looked at the degradation of our rivers and have begun to understand the importance of our riparian strips and looking after the tributaries and streams coming into our main rivers. Anything that affects a stream bed is just about off limits anywhere in the country.
This is a huge aggregate grab of some sort, and maybe we can understand the reasons behind it, with the housing boom and the need for the aggregate. You've said yourself that it can be undertaken in a responsible manner that really has minimal effect on fish habitat. But I don't understand why they would consider it if we have a species of fish that are spawning in the area, the pinks that spawn every second year.
Can you answer the question—because I can't—why we would allow it in a spawning year, when we could simply allow the gravel extractions in the years when the pinks are not spawning?