There are a number of areas where our research is targeting that broad geographic area that some people call the Salish Sea. You can use whatever geographic boundary you like.
Essentially, I would describe it as a focal point of our science program that tends to fall in three main streams.
One is around fish, fish stocks, and fish health itself. As I said earlier, we are trying to understand what is happening to these animals. What is happening when they are in their natal streams? Where do they go? All those sorts of things. What is affecting their health? This is the fish stock work. There is a fair bit of work being done, not only but primarily, on salmon, all elements of the salmon stocks. We do a fair bit of pelagic work there. In that whole geographic area, we are also looking a fair bit at shellfish, for a variety of reasons. I could talk about some of the content of that.
The second area of inquiry is more about the environment in which the fish are swimming, living. One of my colleagues earlier mentioned the oceanographic program. A big part of what we are trying to do is to understand or improve our understanding of the physical conditions in which these animals are living. Is temperature changing? Is pH changing? Is salinity changing? If so, so what? How do all these interact?
The third chunk of our work, which focuses a bit more on the Broughton but also throughout the west coast, is to try to take all of that, put it together, and model what we think will happen if certain disturbances or changes occur. There is a fairly substantive modelling element.