I don't think people here are asking for the same model that they have in Quebec. I think they're asking DFO, within its management plan, to look at each river individually. For example, the Miramichi river system has four main branches. The three of us live in Southwest Miramichi, the Northwest Miramichi, and Main Southwest Miramichi in Cains River.
On the Main Southwest Miramichi we have quite a large and healthy grilse population, and 90% of them are male. They're not really necessary to the spawning of the multi-winter female salmon. We could allow a retention of one or two of those grilse in the same way we used to, to satisfy the local involvement, local interest in the river, the protection of the river, and so on—points that you've all heard before—but not extend the same privilege to the other two branches because they have fewer fish.
The northwest Miramichi in particular has had severe problems over the years. Twice in its history it had a mine dam burst from Heath Steele Mines, in the 1960s and the early 1980s, that wiped out the entire fish population in one afternoon. That river had to be restored almost rock by rock, larva by larva, and so on. That's an individual problem of the Northwest Miramichi. Over the years, people have tried to rebuild it, and they have had some success.
We should be doing individual river management, and it should be within this overall management policy that DFO is looking after.