Yes, that was something that was raised, particularly in the meetings related to the Nova Scotia rivers. One of the big concerns was health, maybe even related to things like aluminum. Perhaps the acidic rivers are freeing up some heavy metals that would then be taken up by the smolts and would make the smolts not as capable of surviving when running the gauntlet of the predators on the way out and then surviving once they get there. That possibility was raised.
On that perspective, the striped bass populations have increased dramatically in the gulf and in the Maritimes regions. That is something that is different today. Also, some of the other fish in some of the rivers in the Gulf of St. Lawrence would go out in hundreds of thousands while the smolts were going out as well, so they would provide some cover, but those runs have changed. Now the smolts are kind of going out on their own, with a much increased population of striped bass.
When you put those two things together, it makes for a concern. The striped bass will go on to another species once they take advantage of the movement of smolts in the river. That is a concern.