The sad thing is that there is very little that can make up the kind of employment that is available, or that would be available, if we continue with the regular forms of salmon farming.
The ideal situation.... As I mentioned in my presentation, the Kitasoo area of the mainland coast—a couple of hundred kilometres beyond the end of Vancouver Island—has no other opportunities to employ people. There are people who previously would have been in the crew on fish boats, gillnetters, and seine boats, which, in past years, were quite heavily labour intensive. The average crew on a seine boat would have been about seven people. They've been able to reduce that down to three or four people with the faster methods of fishing that they've developed today. It's the same with gillnetters. Gillnetters have virtually disappeared on the coast. There are very few of them left, and very few trawlers left. They all had high-employment capability, but unfortunately, that doesn't exist anymore.
With the pressure on other industries, such as mining exploration and forestry, in particular, there are fewer opportunities in the forestry industry or mining industry to employ people along the coast north of us.