I'm not super familiar with the process on the mid-coast, but you did bring up the recommendations made as part of the EBM from the Pacific Salmon Forum. I think they really hit the nail on the head, that if we're talking specifically about farmed fish and wild fish interactions, we need to have rigorous, comprehensive monitoring on the ground wherever there is aquaculture. That's a prerequisite to making informed decisions about the potential consequences--if there are any--of interactions in the first place.
In the Broughton there have been intense conversations, discussions, and research that have ultimately resulted in a coordinated type of approach, but this has been many years in the process. While a spotlight is shown there, other parts of the province have had aquaculture expand outside of the spotlight without a lot of that baseline information. That leads to the uncertainty we are presented with today.