I certainly would agree with that. I did mention in the preamble that one of my biggest concerns these days is climate change. Some days in Newfoundland it's hard to think that we're in a warming situation or the like. Of course, it's not only in the ocean that we're seeing things happening. One of my biggest concerns is climate change in fresh water.
This year, right across the island of Newfoundland, in most places the stocks were down anywhere from 25% to 35% from last year. Now that really wasn't unexpected because back in 2013 and 2014 we had probably two of the hottest summers on record for Newfoundland—not only hot, but very, very dry. My office would be contacted every couple of days to talk about young fish, juvenile fish, that were just in the bottom of a pool in the streams where they were going to spend their first three years, and they were dead. Of course, the thought was that there were some chemicals or something like that, but the truth really was lack of water and the warming of the water. When you get to a certain degree, it's just lethal for the fish.
I remember quite well saying in those years that we will pay for this down the road because if you lose your juvenile fish—your one-, two-, and three-year-olds—in your fresh water, then you certainly don't expect them to come back as adults. That is a very big concern, and it is not one, of course, that we can address just by going out tomorrow and doing something. It's long term. With climate change, is the range of Atlantic salmon starting to creep a little bit towards the north?