Okay.
We also need to implement the wild salmon policy. It's an excellent piece of work, and Justice Cohen agreed. The policy's action steps involve assessing the status of our salmon populations and their habitats and implementing rebuilding plans for the endangered ones, but 15 years later it hasn't happened. The current official implementation plan won't actually get us there. We should study and mitigate the risks of salmon hatcheries. We should do it through the use of a biological risk assessment framework, as promised in the 2005 wild salmon policy.
Again, this has only been half-done, and our hatchery practices are causing harm to wild salmon, and doing it at great expense to taxpayers.
Overfishing can be reduced by transitioning to what we call “known stock” fisheries, which take only the harvestable surplus of identifiable populations, and by implementing such best practices as effective catch and stock monitoring, verifiable catch reporting—