We recognize that we get some warm summers, and it's been well demonstrated that water temperatures get to lethal temperatures for salmon. During that period of time, salmon have to find cold water sources or they'll die. They move to the springs and the colder brooks that are coming in to the Miramichi. The water is so shallow at the mouth of these brooks that they go into these areas and then they're picked off by eagles and osprey and other predators.
What we've tried to do is to identify cold water areas and dig out the mouth of the brooks into the river so that we have deeper water where fish can find refuge, deeper water with boulders that they can hide behind. We feel that this can save a lot of fish. You can put a lot of fish into these pools for a very short period of time until the temperature cools off again.
Under that recreational fisheries program, the federal government would provide up to 50% of the cost of doing it. We have been doing one, two, three brooks a year for the last number of years. We think it's made quite a difference on the river and we want to continue to do more.
Last year was the first year that we didn't have access to that fund. We still went ahead and did one, but it really tapped into our resources to be able to fund the whole thing. That help from the federal government was good.