It's interesting that you both use the Fraser River as an example.
Ms. Nowlan, your example stopped in 2009, which was admittedly a very low year, but wonder of wonders, in 2010 the sockeye sprang back, and in 2014 there was a record sockeye salmon run of 20 million fish, so I think it's important to complete the story here.
It's obvious the Fraser River system is currently capable of producing millions of fish even under the new Fisheries Act, and perhaps even because of the new Fisheries Act.
I found it interesting, when we changed the Fisheries Act, we focused on production of fish. Fish production is quite important.
I'm going to ask you a question, Mr. Langer. In prairie Canada, a number of reservoirs have been built over the last 40 or 50 years. There's something you're familiar with as a biologist called the reservoir effect, in that the fish population, the fish production, just boomed dramatically to the great benefit of local communities.
Was the building of those reservoirs and the admitted changes in fish habitat, which caused an incredible boom in fish production, good or bad for fish?