The first thing I'd do is set up that task force I talked about, because I think that's something we can do immediately, and I think it's something we should do immediately.
That task force then could tackle those things that are most easily solved right away, one of them being protection of the salmon pools. For example, with the decline in the number of DFO scientists came the decline in fisheries officers too. Nobody was immune from those particular cutbacks.
As I said, I can remember when I first started angling on the river, there were three salmon pools within sight of one another in Nelson Hollow and there were two guys there who were wardens. You never knew where they were going to be, but they were always watching those three pools. In one of the pools you might find as many as 5,000 salmon in hot water in the summer. Big Hole Brook was the name of the pool. Now there are no wardens. The wardens drive up and down the roads past the rivers.
Salmon protection would be one thing. There are other things we can be doing too. We can be doing some more research immediately on ways to keep the rivers cold. MSA has started some programs to that end. They're doing some thermal imaging up and down the river.
The other thing they have to remember is that the river grows from the feeder springs along the way. There's one spring in the upper Miramichi River near McKeel Lake that is so cold that it will freeze butter. That stream, that spring water, is flowing into the Miramichi River. That spring should be maintained. There shouldn't be any cutting around that stream, nor along the barrier strip that takes up water to the river. That's another immediate thing that could be done.
I'd say those are a couple of things. There are others as well, but those would be two of the first things I would do.