Thank you.
We appreciate your being here to help us understand this complicated issue.
I have three questions. First, I'm just going to say that I appreciate your comments about the economic importance of the industry, especially in British Columbia but also in other places, and that the aboriginal employment in remote communities has been hugely beneficial to the health of those communities. But of course I have some concerns about the industry.
One question I have relates to the Broughton Archipelago and the post-monitoring system that's managed through the Vancouver Aquarium. I've seen results that confirm what you noted, that there's a complicated set of factors affecting the trends for declining sockeye salmon. But the results appear to show that as the salmon go past the Broughton Archipelago there is a significant drop-off in their numbers, according to the monitoring. There are other drop-offs at other places. This suggests that there is something happening that really significantly affects their numbers in that area. The Fraser report called for some experimenting with shutting down the channels in the Broughton Archipelago and getting some better data on this.
Could you tell me the progress of those experiments, and, if they haven't taken place, tell me why not?