You raise a very good point, Mr. Hardie. There was good fishing, and there is again this year, for certain Washington state and B.C. stocks transiting through the Salish Sea. It sort of masks the larger declines that we've seen coast-wide, and the poor state of the Fraser chinook populations that are migrating alongside those stocks. The abundance of a few populations is driving the harvest, while a great number of smaller and endangered populations are being hit even harder in the process of fishing.
It speaks to the need—as I mentioned, and Mr. Zeman and Mr. Hwang mentioned—for greater monitoring of the use of genetic stock identification to understand the stock composition of the catch as it's migrating through. There are ways to shift fishery management to take greater advantage of abundant stocks and have lower impact on the comigrating endangered populations. There have been several proposals put forward to the department to shift in that direction, and that's what we need to do.