No, they did not.
In fact, the scientific information that was looked at by DFO was scientific information that was provided by the proponent. The assessment undertaken by the proponent looked at the impact that the environment would have on their proposal, not the impact that their proposal would have on the environment. That's what was looked at. The information that DFO and others looked at was the information that was provided by Sweeney International Management Corp., a company that did the work for Cooke Aquaculture. That's the only scientific information that DFO really looked at. DFO acknowledged it had never done a baseline study of St. Mary's Bay, so no one could measure the implications of a 200-acre, $2-million salmon operation on the fisheries, on the sea floor, on the environment—nothing. No one was operating with a proper baseline assessment to begin with.