The number one concern is on the biology and the health of the wild species, but we'd be disingenuous if we said we didn't think it would have an impact on the economy of the fishery, because it will.
We have 2,400 tonnes now, sustainably harvested, sought after in every five-star restaurant and any market that we've tried to penetrate, and they reward our good practices with $8 a pound. If you go in with an inferior quality product, which we believe farmed fish will be, and they try to capture the same price in the marketplace, you know what will happen: the price will go down.
However, I will tell you something. This argument that it's really all about price has come from some people, but our own members have indicated that they would be prepared to invest in closed containment.
We don't have any licences. I'm talking about our own members. My members are entrepreneurs. This is a commercial fishery on the Pacific coast, and if there is a way they can at the same time protect the requirement for protecting the wild stocks and find a business opportunity in closed containment on salmon or on other species, some of my members would probably invest, but you would not have one of them invest one penny in any of the open-pen operations in B.C. today.