Thanks for the question. I'll start, but I'll ask Alain to add.
Just in terms of Atlantic salmon, as the member has pointed out, the advisory committee has been announced and is getting under way.
We are seeing significant reductions. We had a commercial fishery in this fishery previously, which was closed in 1998. The recreational fishery's enormously important for cultural but also economic reasons.
We do many things in our department to support salmon management. I could go through a litany of management measures we've taken. In fact, in some cases we've seen some encouraging signs.
The big challenge is in the southern ranges. In fact, if you look at the U.S. salmon fishery, it's just about gone. There's some view that the range is moving north, so many of our efforts...many of the areas are actually closed to fishing. In many of the areas there's catch and release, there are strict rules on it, etc. We are concerned. The last couple of years have been showing that we weren't seeing the positive signs we had been seeing, hence the committee.
We do much research. We do many things. One thing we do is live gene banking. We used to have three and now we have two facilities on the east coast for that. The three were consolidated into two. The Mersey facility was closed and its work has been largely transferred to the other two, Mactaquac and—I forgot the name of the other, but Alain will know it.
Alain, you may have more information.