Thank you.
Welcome to our committee. I'm very pleased to hear from both of the witnesses, Dr. O'Riordan and the Honourable John Fraser.
I do want to pass on a hello from my colleague Lawrence MacAulay. He has graciously given me his time, and I know he also wanted to express his appreciation.
I think the Pacific Salmon Forum report is a critical document for our committee, so I'll be asking the clerk to circulate it, but I would appreciate a bit more detail as to the recommendations that came out of the report.
Also, could you tell us a bit more about which ones were implemented? For example, have the production caps in the Broughton been respected? Has the density increased or the production increased there?
I asked earlier about the experiment in the Broughton, which was proposed in your report. Perhaps you could comment on the degree to which that's been implemented.
I'm interested in the Ministry of Natural Resource Operations. I haven't dug into that. I know the province changed the water governance a few years ago by bringing it back together, largely under the environment ministry, from a previous model in which it had been fragmented.
Finally, could you tell me, Dr. O'Riordan, whether the Ministry of Natural Resource Operations is explicitly tasked to implement the kind of integrated watershed regulatory model that your forum proposed?
Thanks.