I would have two top priorities right now for funding in DFO.
One of them is to restore and improve the escapement monitoring system. There are large parts of the coast for which we don't really have any idea of how many fish are making it to spawn and what the status of the large proportion of B.C.'s small salmon stock is because the escapement monitoring program has deteriorated so far.
The second major priority I would see right now is for some careful research on selective fishing practices. This was brought up a few minutes ago in talking about the idea of using beach seines, for example, in the Fraser River to allow selective harvest. There was recently some interesting physiological research showing that when you beach seine a bunch of salmon shortly after they've entered fresh water from the ocean and then turn them loose, that's the end of them—they die anyway. That's a so-called selective fishing practice that's liable to do more harm than good. We need to understand how to do selective fisheries, and we don't.