As I understand it, the federal government can do whatever they want with this industry. I would really like to see the Fisheries Act applied, and if they don't meet that bar, if they simply need to get out of the ocean, I think the support this would have would be enormous. But at the same time, take care of those families, because government, as I see it, made a big mistake here.
We were warning them. I was warning them from 1989 not to put them on the migration route. If you want to gamble with this industry, fine, but you've got to have your ace in the hole. You want to have the wild fish coming and going undisturbed. But because government did not listen to anybody and we've got to this point, there are now families who have mortgages and they're very dependent on the industry, so please take care of them.
I think the federal government does have a broad range of choices, and one of them is simply that there is no right way to do the wrong thing. Holding these things in net pens--Atlantic salmon on top of it--is incredibly risky in what we know in the world of biology today.