I have to agree with Jerry—though we don't always agree, but are good friends—that the anglers have not had a major impact on the stocks. They're angling grilse, mostly males. That hasn't been a major influence. What has happened is that either through the marine environment...we're not producing the fish. Everyone agrees that the big issue is mortality at sea. We don't understand exactly what that mortality is, but we can identify items such as a huge grey seal population. In the case of the Miramichi, which is being hit a little bit harder than some of the others, we have a big striped bass population. Perhaps it's a food issue. We need that international work and, of course, internationalism is the job of our federal government, in reality. If things are happening in our river, we're going to take a lot of responsibility to see that something gets addressed within our watershed. But when it gets to international waters, we're out of our realm. We need the federal government to lead that charge internationally. I think that's where the responsibility lies.
On May 17th, 2016. See this statement in context.